Bible Verses About Misunderstanding

They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.

That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

But ye have not so learned Christ;

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.