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Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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1 Nephi 8 — The Tree, the Rod, and the Building — Two Geographies of the Soul
2 Nephi 16 — Isaiah 6 — The Throne Theophany, the Coal from the Altar, and Send Me
2 Nephi 27 — Isaiah 29 Expanded — The Sealed Book, the Learned Man, the Three Witnesses, the Marvelous Work
2 Nephi 28 — False Churches in the Latter Days — The Lull of Carnal Security, the Few Stripes, the Line upon Line
2 Nephi 33 — Nephi's Farewell — The Power of the Words, the Face-to-Face Meeting, the Pleasing Bar
3 Nephi 2 — Less and Less Astonished — How Wonder Dies and the Lines Dissolve
3 Nephi 19 — That They May Be One — The Disciples Purified and the Prayer of Unity
3 Nephi 26 — I Will Try the Faith of My People — The Greater Things Withheld and the Church of Christ
4 Nephi 1 — And Surely There Could Not Be a Happier People — The Two Hundred Years of Zion, and the Long Unraveling
Alma 5 — Have Ye Received His Image in Your Countenances — Alma's Master Examination at Zarahemla, the Mighty Change of Heart, and the Song of Redeeming Love
Alma 24 — Rather Than Shed the Blood of Our Brethren — Weapons Buried Deep, 1,005 Slain Singing Praise, and the Convert Count That Exceeded the Body Count
Alma 32 — The Experiment Upon the Word — Faith as a Seed, and the Blessedness of the Poor Who Were Cast Out
Alma 35 — It Did Destroy Their Craft — The Fallout of the Word, the People of Ammon's Open Hand, and a Father Gathering His Sons
Alma 37 — By Small and Simple Things — The Sacred Records, the Liahona, and the Charge to Helaman
Jacob 1 — The Plates Pass to Jacob — Magnifying the Office, the Anxiety for Souls, and the Naming of Kings
Jacob 4 — Looking Beyond the Mark — Jacob's Meditation on Christ, Scripture, and the Jewish Stumble
Jacob 5 — The Allegory of the Olive Tree — Zenos on the Lord's Vineyard, the Wild Branches, and the Final Harvest
Jacob 6 — Cleave Unto God — Jacob's Allegorical Exhortation and the Pleasing Bar of the Great Jehovah
Mormon 1 — A Sober Child, Quick to Observe — Mormon's Boyhood, and the Withdrawal of the Spirit from a People
Mormon 9 — A God of Miracles — Moroni to the Unbeliever, and the Unchanging Christ
Mosiah 2 — Benjamin's Tower Sermon — The Humble King, Service as Worship, the Unprofitable Servant, and the Wo of the Open Rebel
Mosiah 8 — The Twenty-Four Plates and the Doctrine of the Seer — Interpreters, Urim and Thummim, and a Gift Greater Than Prophecy
Mosiah 13 — Abinadi's Face Shines — The Decalogue Finished, the Law as Schoolmaster, and the God Himself Who Shall Come Down
Mosiah 16 — The Light That Cannot Be Darkened — Abinadi's Closing Sermon on Carnal Death, the Light of Endless Life, and the Law That Points Beyond Itself
Mosiah 28 — The Sons of Mosiah Depart for the Lamanites — They Could Not Bear That Any Soul Should Perish, Mosiah Translates the Jaredite Plates by the Interpreters, the Office of the Seer Defined
Doctrine and Covenants 6 — Did I Not Speak Peace to Your Mind?
Doctrine and Covenants 39 — Thine Heart Is Now Right
Doctrine and Covenants 40 — He Received the Word with Gladness
Doctrine and Covenants 64 — Of You It Is Required to Forgive All Men
Doctrine and Covenants 85 — The Book of the Law of God
Doctrine and Covenants 86 — The Wheat and the Tares
Doctrine and Covenants 111 — More Treasures Than One
Doctrine and Covenants 123 — Waste and Wear Out Our Lives
2 Kings 6 — They That Be With Us Are More — the Axe Head That Swam, the Mountain Full of Fire at Dothan, and the Siege That Devoured Samaria
2 Kings 7 — The Noise That Emptied a Camp — Flour for a Shekel, Windows in Heaven, Four Lepers at Twilight, and the Day of Good Tidings
Nehemiah 6 — I Am Doing a Great Work — Nehemiah on the Wall, the Plain of Ono, the Hired Prophet, and the Fear That Would Not Land

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