Sin Causes Moral Insensibility
Matthew 13:13
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.


The evil thing in which you have indulged is not like a wave which lifts a ship for a moment, and then passes on. leaving everything-as it was before. Far from that! It has entered as a poison into your spiritual nature — it has become an actual blighting force in your character. You are essentially a different man: the measure of your religions capacity is so much less than it was. Let any one yield to selfishness, to falsehood, to cynical ill-humour, to lust, and darker anti darker every day the chambers of the imp, or man become: feebler and feebler the energies for all heavenly belief and obedience; more and more earthly the tastes and inclinations; narrower and more circumscribed the horizon of life; deeper and more profound the loss of the soul. This is one of the most solemn aspects of sin.

(T. Hammond.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

WEB: Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.




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