28 Bible Verses about Listening

Then Peter stood up with the eleven around him, and raising his voice addressed them. "Men of Judea," he said, "and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and pay attention to what I say.

Then Paul got up, and motioning with his hand, said, "Men of Israel, and you who reverence God, listen!

"Understand then that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen. They will listen to it!"

As he spoke a bright cloud overshadowed them and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved. He is my Chosen. Listen to him!"

And a cloud came and overshadowed them, and from the cloud came a voice, "This is my Son, my Beloved. Listen to him,"

And from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen! Listen to him!"

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me,

And he called the people to him and said to them,

He called the people to him again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever disregards you disregards me, and whoever disregards me disregards him who sent me."

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not obey them.

You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to be angry,

And on the third day they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions,

Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.

Abraham answered, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them listen to them.' But he said, 'No! Father Abraham, but if someone will go to them from the dead, they will repent!' He answered, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!' "

"But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. But if he will not listen, take one or two others with you, so that everything may be supported by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell the congregation. And if he refuses to listen to it, treat him as a heathen or a tax-collector.

But he said, "You might better say, 'Blessed are those who hear God's message and observe it!' "

Obey the message; do not merely listen to it, and deceive yourselves. For anyone who merely listens to the message without obeying it is like a man who looks in a mirror at the face that nature gave him, and then goes off and immediately forgets what he looked like.

"Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock. And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew, and beat about that house, and it did not go down, for its foundations were on rock. And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.read more.
And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat about that house, and it went down, and its downfall was complete."

If anyone comes to me and listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, I will show you whom he is like. He is like a man who was building a house, who dug deep and laid his foundation upon the rock, and when there was a flood the torrent burst upon that house and could not shake it, because it was well built. But the man who listens to it, and does not act upon it, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation. The torrent burst upon it, and it collapsed at once, and the wreck of that house was complete."

For merely hearing the Law read does not make a man upright in the sight of God; men must obey the Law to be made upright.

Once as the crowd was pressing about him to hear God's message, he happened to be standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,

While all the people were listening, he said to his disciples,

She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying.

One of our hearers was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods, from the town of Thyatira. She was a believer in God, and the Lord touched her heart, and led her to accept Paul's teaching.

"In a hurry or not," said Paul, "I would to God that not only you, but all who hear me today, might be what I am??xcept for these chains!"