What does the Bible say about blindness?

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• 1 John 2:11

  But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

• Ephesians 5:8

  For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

• Matthew 15:14

  Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

• Matthew 13:13-16

  [13] Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand. [14] In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive: [15] For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.' [16] "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

• Revelation 3:17

  Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and don't know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

• 2 Corinthians 4:4

  in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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