John 8:43

In 9 translations

BSB

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

KJV

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

WEB

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

ASV

Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.

LSV

why do you not know My speech? Because you are not able to hear My word.

YLT

wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

DBY

Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

DRC

Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

GNV

Why doe ye not vnderstande my talke? because ye cannot heare my worde.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

διὰ τί τὴν λαλιὰν τὴν ἐμὴν οὐ γινώσκετε; ὅτι οὐ δύνασθε ἀκούειν τὸν λόγον τὸν ἐμόν.

RP2018

Διὰ τί τὴν λαλιὰν τὴν ἐμὴν οὐ γινώσκετε; Ὅτι οὐ δύνασθε ἀκούειν τὸν λόγον τὸν ἐμόν.

TR-Boyd

Διὰ τί τὴν λαλιὰν τὴν ἐμὴν οὐ γινώσκετε; Ὅτι οὐ δύνασθε ἀκούειν τὸν λόγον τὸν ἐμόν.

SCR1894

δια τι την λαλιαν την εμην ου γινωσκετε οτι ου δυνασθε ακουειν τον λογον τον εμον

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• John 12:39–40For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says: “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I…
• Romans 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
• John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
• John 5:43I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
• Proverbs 28:5Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.
• Jeremiah 6:10To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
• Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
• John 6:60On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
• John 8:27They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.
• Isaiah 6:9And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
• Isaiah 44:18They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
• Micah 4:12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
• Hosea 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
• Romans 3:11There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

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