⁴³ Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

¹⁷ If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

¹⁰ To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

⁷ because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

⁸ Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

¹¹ There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

⁵¹ "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

³⁹ For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,

⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, Lest they should see with their eyes, And perceive with their heart, And would turn, And I would heal them."

²⁷ They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

⁶⁰ Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"

⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

¹² But they don't know the thoughts of Yahweh, Neither do they understand his counsel; For he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

⁹ Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, And the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

¹⁸ They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

⁹ He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, But don't understand; And you see indeed, But don't perceive.'

⁵ Evil men don't understand justice; But those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.