Acts 10:33
Immediately I sent for you. You have done well for you have come. We are all present before God, to hear all things that are commanded to you from God.
Acts 17:11-12
The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.
Acts 28:28
You need to know that God has sent his salvation to people who are not Jews. They will listen.
Galatians 4:14
That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you did not despise or reject. You received me like an angel (messenger) of God, even like Christ Jesus.
James 1:19
You know this, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
Deuteronomy 5:25-29
We do not want to take a chance on being killed by that terrible fire. If we hear Jehovah's voice again we will die.
2 Chronicles 30:12
The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of Jehovah.
Proverbs 1:5
A wise man will hear and will increase learning. A man of understanding will procure wise counsel.
Proverbs 9:9-10
Give instruction to a wise man and he will become even wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning (insight).
Proverbs 18:15
The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge. The ear of the wise one searches for knowledge.
Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise provider to a listening ear.
Matthew 18:4
He who humbles himself to become like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 10:15
Truly I tell you, he who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child shall not enter it.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this purpose we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, you accepted it, not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
James 1:21
Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.
1 Peter 2:1-2
Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk.
Matthew 19:30
Many who are first will be last. Some who are last will be first.