REV 3:15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

REV 3:16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

JER 5:31. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

1TIM 6:5. Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

REV 3:17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

B. Closing our minds to the truth is spiritual blindness:

MAT 15:14. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

ISA 30:9. That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

ZEC 7:11. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

ZEC 7:12. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

MAT 13:14. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

MAT 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.

MAT 23:16. Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

MAT 23:17. Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

MAT 23:24. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

MAT 23:26. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

ROM 10:3. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

2COR 4:4. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

EPH 4:18. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

C. Even many who boast that they see are blind:

JOH 9:40. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?

JOH 9:41. Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

REV 3:17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

D. Compromise due to fear of man:

JOH 12:42. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

JOH 12:43. For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.