41 Bible Verses about Pay Attention To People!

Now listen to my voice; I will advise you, and may God be with you. You be for the people before God, and you bring the issues to God.

"I will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell--

Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my knowledge myself.'

"But now, please hear my speeches, Job, and hear all my words.

"Listen attentively, Job; listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."

"Hear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you who know,

"Therefore, listen to me, {people who have sense}: far be it from God {that he should commit wickedness} and that Shaddai {should do wrong}.

"But if [you have] understanding, hear this; listen to {what I say}.

Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips.

So then, you also please listen to the voice of your female servant, and let me set before you a morsel of bread, and [you] eat so that {you will have strength} in you when you go on your way."

"Listen carefully [to] my words, and [let] my exposition [be] in your ears.

"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

"Hear this, Job; stand [still] and consider carefully God's wondrous works.

Then Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; O wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for injuring me.

And they told Jotham, and he went up and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and {he cried out loud} and said to them, "Listen to me, lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.

"And now, children, listen to me; happy [are] those who will keep my ways.

Then God said to Abraham, "{Do not be displeased} on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. {Listen to everything that Sarah said to you}, for through Isaac [your] offspring will be named.

So now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I command you.

Then his mother said to him, "Your curse be upon me, my son, only listen to my voice--go and get [them] for me."

Now then, my son, listen to my voice; arise and flee to Haran to Laban my brother.

Listen, and hear my voice! Listen attentively, and hear my word!

My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,

Children, listen [to the] instruction of a father, and be attentive [in order] to know insight.

My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.

My child, keep [the] commandment of your father, and do not disregard [the] instruction of your mother.

Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob! Listen to Israel your father!

Then {he uttered} his oracle, and said, "Stand up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor!

And the man spoke to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes and listen with your ears and apply your heart to all that I [am] showing you, for you were brought here in order to show you [this]; tell all that you [are] seeing to the house of Israel."

Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people concerning all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.

And so then, listen to their voice. However, you must earnestly warn them; you must explain to them the custom of the king who will rule over them."

Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and appoint a king for them." So Samuel spoke to the men of Israel, "Each of you go to his [own] town."

And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge is saying!

But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them, "Judean men, and all those who live [in] Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and pay attention to my words!

So he said, "Men--brothers and fathers--listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham [while he] was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

And after they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, "Men [and] brothers, listen to me!

"Men--brothers and fathers--listen to my defense to you now!"

But so that I may not impose on you for longer, I implore you to hear us briefly with your [customary] graciousness.

[because] you are especially acquainted with both all the customs and controversial questions with respect to the Jews. Therefore I beg [you] to listen to me with patience.

And [because] many were experiencing lack of appetite, at that time Paul stood up in their midst [and] said, "Men, [you] ought to have followed my [advice] not to put out to sea from Crete, and [thus] avoided this damage and loss!