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I could not see, because the bright light had made me blind. So my companions led me into Damascus.

He stood by me and said, ‘Brother Saul, see again!' Immediately I was able to see him.

He said, ‘The God of our ancestors chose you long ago to know his plan, to see the Righteous One, and to hear words from him.

Festus talked about this with his advisers. Then he said, "You have asked to see Caesar, so you will go to Caesar!"

Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are gathered here with us, you see this man. All the people, here and in Jerusalem, have complained to me about him, shouting that he should not live any longer.

"Men, I can see there will be a lot of trouble on this trip. The ship, the cargo, and even our lives may be lost."

When we could not see the sun or the stars for many days, and the storm was very bad, we lost all hope of being saved.

That is why I wanted to see you and talk with you. I am bound with this chain because I believe in the hope of Israel."

because these people have become stubborn. They don't hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might really understand what they see with their eyes and hear with their ears. They might really understand in their minds and come back to me and be healed.' Isaiah 6:9–10

I want very much to see you, to give you some spiritual gift to make you strong.

There are things about him that people cannot see—his eternal power and all the things that make him God. But since the beginning of the world those things have been easy to understand by what God has made. So people have no excuse for the bad things they do.

But you are stubborn and refuse to change, so you are making your own punishment even greater on the day he shows his anger. On that day everyone will see God's right judgments.

In the same way, you should see yourselves as being dead to the power of sin and alive with God through Christ Jesus.

Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No! Sin used something that is good to bring death to me. This happened so that I could see what sin is really like; the command was used to show that sin is very evil.

But I see another law working in my body, which makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and it makes me its prisoner.

We were saved, and we have this hope. If we see what we are waiting for, that is not really hope. People do not hope for something they already have.

God can see what is in people's hearts. And he knows what is in the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit speaks to God for his people in the way God wants.

It is the same way with God. He wanted to show his anger and to let people see his power. But he patiently stayed with those people he was angry with—people who were made ready to be destroyed.

As it is written in the Scriptures: "God gave the people a dull mind so they could not understand." Isaiah 29:10 "He closed their eyes so they could not see and their ears so they could not hear. This continues until today." Deuteronomy 29:4

Let their eyes be closed so they cannot see and their backs be forever weak from troubles." Psalm 69:22–23