Quotes About Awareness

He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. There is one thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”

He replied, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”

Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”

“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

About three hours later his wife also came in, unaware of what had happened.

You yourselves know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee with the baptism that John proclaimed:

and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

For the king knows about these matters, and I can speak freely to him. I am confident that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.

ëGo to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

For this peopleís heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.í

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

And Isaiah boldly says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me.”

Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about Him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”

The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.

For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

But if anyone ignores this, he himself will be ignored.