Bible verses about "blindness" | Williams

¹³ This is why I am speaking to them in stories, because they look but do not see, they listen but do not really hear or understand. ¹⁴ So in them the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: "'You will listen and listen and not understand, and you will look and look and never see at all, ¹⁵ For this people's soul has grown dull, and with their ears they can scarcely hear, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they will never see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn to me, so that I may cure them!' ¹⁶ "But blessed are your eyes, for they are beginning to see, and your ears, for they are beginning to hear.

¹⁴ Let them alone. They are blind teachers! And if one blind man guides another, they will both fall into the ditch."

⁸ For at one time you were darkness itself, but now in union with the Lord you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

¹¹ But whoever continues to hate his brother is in darkness and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.