hardened hearts
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18having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.
8harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, the very day of temptation, in the desert,
14And so, in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, who said, ‘Hearing, you shall hear, but not understand; and seeing, you shall see, but not perceive. 15For the heart of this people has grown fat, and with their ears they hear heavily, and they have closed their eyes, lest at any time they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and then I would heal them.’
13Whoever hides his crimes will not be guided. But whoever will have confessed and abandoned them shall overtake mercy. 14Blessed is the man who is ever fearful. Yet truly, whoever is hardened in mind will fall into evil.
12And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, just as the Lord said to Moses.
17And Jesus, knowing this, said to them: “Why do you consider that it is because you have no bread? Do you not yet know or understand? Do you still have blindness in your heart?
26And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.
9The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?
3But I will harden his heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
12For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
1And know this: that in the last days perilous times will press near. 2Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, 3without affection, without peace, false accusers, unchaste, cruel, without kindness, 4traitorous, reckless, self-important, loving pleasure more than God,
48Whoever despises me and does not accept my words has one who judges him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him on the last day.
9By what does an adolescent correct his way? By keeping to your words.