Romans 8:24-25

8:24 For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees? 8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance. ¹ 

Romans 11:10

11:10 let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see,

and make their backs bend continually.” ² 

Romans 11:8

11:8 as it is written,

“God gave them a spirit of stupor,

eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear,

to this very day.” ³ 

Romans 7:23

7:23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

¹ tn Or “perseverance.”

¹ sn A quotation from Ps 69:22-23.

¹ sn A quotation from Deut 29:4; Isa 29:10.