Understand

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”

Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.”

For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.

So Philip ran up and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.

Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

My companions saw the light, but they could not understand the voice of the One speaking to me.

…and since I wanted to understand their charges against him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin.

For this people’s 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.’

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”

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

We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely,

For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely,

Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?

In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.

But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation.

These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.