Bible Verses About Spiritual Blindness

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, (lest ye should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part hath happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles shall be come in.

It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal things.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

And they smote the men that [were] at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the great hatred.

In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open my eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, [even] as to babes in Christ.

And all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.)

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

However, that [was] not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual, restore such one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ:

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

The LORD shall smite thee with the madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged by no man.

If we have sown to you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

And all ate the same spiritual food;

Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.

For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace:

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.