28 Bible Verses about Listening

But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: "Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give heed to my words.

Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen:

Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen."

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him!"

And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!"

And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!"

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

And he called the people to him and said to them, "Hear and understand:

And he called all the people to him again, and said to them, "Hear me, everyone, and understand:

"He who hears you hears me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger,

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Listen, my beloved brethren: has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.' And he said, 'No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.'"

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that 'every matter may be established by the word of two or three witnesses.' If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for he looks at himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what he was like.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;read more.
and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell. And great was its fall."

Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it was well built. But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

Now as the people pressed around him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.

And in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his word.

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, who was a worshiper of God, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

And Paul said, "Whether in a short or a long time, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day might become such as I amexcept for these chains."