Job 24:13-17
13 “There are those who rebel aagainst the light,who are not acquainted with its ways,
and do not stay in its paths.
14The murderer rises before it is light,
that he bmay kill the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.
15The eye of the adulterer also waits for cthe twilight,
saying, ‘No deye will see me’;
and he veils his face.
16In the dark they edig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.
17For fdeep darkness is morning to all of them;
for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
Proverbs 1:22
22“How long, O gsimple ones, will you love being simple?How long will hscoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools ihate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:29-30
29Because they jhated knowledgeand kdid not choose the fear of the Lord,
30 lwould have none of my counsel
and mdespised all my reproof,
John 1:10
10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet nthe world did not know him.John 3:19-20
19 oAnd this is the judgment: pthe light has come into the world, and qpeople loved the darkness rather than the light because rtheir works were evil. 20 sFor everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, tlest his works should be exposed.John 12:36-40
36While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become usons of light.”The Unbelief of the People
When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. 37Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, 38 vso that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:w“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39Therefore they xcould not believe. For again Isaiah said,
40 y“He has blinded their eyes
and zhardened their heart,
lest they see with their eyes,
and understand with their heart, and turn,
and I would heal them.”
Romans 1:28
28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, aaGod gave them up to aba debased mind to do acwhat ought not to be done.
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