27 Bible Verses about Listening

But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice and said to them, Men of Judea, and all who live at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and attend to my words.

And Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you that fear God, hear.

Be it known to you, therefore, that the salvation of God is sent to the gentiles, and they will hear it.

While he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold a voice from the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; hear him.

And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came from the cloud, This is my beloved Son; hear him.

And there was a voice from the cloud, saying, This is my chosen Son; hear him.

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

And having called the multitude, he said, Hear and understand.

And again calling all the people, he said to them, Hear me, all of you, and understand.

He that hears you, hears me; and he that rejects you, rejects me; and he that rejects me, rejects him that sent me.

All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep have not heard them.

Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

And after three days they found him sitting in the temple in the midst of the teachers, both hearing and questioning them.

Hear, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. But he said, No, father Abraham, but if one went to them from the dead they would change their minds. But he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, they would not be persuaded if one arose from the dead.

But if your brother sins against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not hear you, take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established; and if he will not hear them, tell the assembly; and if he will not hear the assembly, let him be to you as a gentile and a publican.

And he said, Yes indeed, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man perceiving his natural face in a glass; for he perceived himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what kind of a man he was.

Every one, therefore, that hears these words of mine and performs them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on the rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and performs them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand;read more.
and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell; and its fall was great.

Every one that comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I will show you whom he is like. He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid the foundation on the rock; and when there was a flood, the stream beat against that house and could not shake it, because it was built on a rock. But he that hears and does not, is like a man building a house on the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream beat, and it fell immediately; and the ruin of that house was great.

And as the multitude pressed upon him to hear the word of God, and he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,

And in the hearing of all the people he said to them,

And she had a sister called Mary, and she sat at the feet of the Lord and heard his word.

And a certain woman by the name of Lydia, a dealer in purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard, whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the [words] spoken by Paul.

And Paul said, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.