78 Bible Verses about Receptiveness

But happy your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say to you, that many prophets and just desired eagerly to see what ye see, and saw not; and to hear what ye hear, and heard not.

The heart of him understanding will obtain knowledge and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge.

The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah made, also them two.

Jesus then having seen the mother, and the disciple standing near, whom he loved, says to his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then says he to the disciple, Behold thy mother And from that hour the disciple took her to his own.

And he will say to the blood relative, The portion of the field which was to our brother Elimelech, Naomi turning back from the field of Moab, sells: And I said, I will reveal to thine ear, saying, Buy before the inhabitants, and before the old men of my people. If thou wilt redeem, redeem: and if thou wilt not redeem, announce to me, and I shall know: for none besides thee to redeem; and I after thee; and he will say, I will redeem. And Boaz will say, In the day of thy buying the field from the hand of Naomi, and from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, thou boughtest it to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

And whoever shall receive such a young child in my name, receives me.

Whoever should receive ones of such young children in my name, receives me: and whoever should receive me, receives not me, but him sending me.

And he said to them, Whoever should receive this child in my name receives me: and whoever should receive me, receives him having sent me: for he being less among you all, the same shall be great.

For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye brought me in:

And all believing were in one and the same place, and had all things common: And sold possessions and goods, and divided them to all, as any one had need

And the heart and soul of the multitude of them believing were one: and not one said any of the things being to him to be his own; but all were common to them.

Rejoices not at injustice, and rejoices with the truth; Covers all things, believes all, hopes all things, endures all. '

And my temptation in my flesh, ye counted not as nothing, nor spurned; but as an angel of God ye received me, as Christ Jesus.

Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they are of God: for many false prophets have come out into the world.

And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.

For you to try things differing; that ye may be pure and not stumbling to the day of Christ;

Try all things; hold the good.

And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ. For if he coming proclaim another Jesus, which I proclaimed not, or ye receive another spirit, which ye received not, or other good news, which ye received not, ye have held up well.

Watch ye to yourselves, lest your heart shall be enticed, and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and worship to them:

And it will be at the time of the old age of Solomon his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God as the heart of David his father.

With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.

Trust to Jehovah with all thy heart; and thou shalt not lean to thine understanding. In all thy ways know him, and he will make straight thy paths.

My son, watch the commands of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the laws of thy mother: Tie them always upon thy heart; bind them upon thy throat In thy going about it shall lead thee; in thy lying down it shall watch over thee; and awaking, it shall speak to thee.

Blessed the man who shall trust in Jehovah, and his trust was Jehovah. And he was as a tree planted by the waters, and it shall spread out its roots by the river, and it shall not see when heat shall come, and its leaf was green; and it shall not be afraid in the year of restraint, and it shall not withdraw from making fruit.

Jesus says to him, Because thou bast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: happy they not having seen, and having believed.

And having seen the crowds, he felt compassion for them, for they were relaxed and dispersed, as sheep not having a shepherd.

For Jehovah saw the affliction of Israel exceedingly bitter, and none shut up, and none left, and no helper to Israel.

As a father compassionating over his sons, Jehovah compassionated those fearing him. For he knew our formation; he remembered that we are dust.

In all their straits not an adversary, and: a messenger of his face saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he will take them up and bear them all the days forever.

Therefore make not yourselves like them: for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye ask him.

And Jesus having called his disciples, said, I feel compassion for the crowd, for already they remain with me three days, and they have nothing they could eat: and I will not leave them fasting, lest they be relaxed in the way.

I feel compassion for the crowd, for already they remain three days with me, and have nothing they might eat: And if I loose them fasting to their house, they will be relaxed in the way: for some of them have come from far.

And having seen her, the Lord felt compassion for her and said to her, Weep not.

Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you.

I was languid and crushed even greatly: I roared from the groaning of my heart

And Jehovah will say, Seeing, I saw the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I heard their cry from the face of their pressers; and I knew their pains.

And Jehovah will say to him, I heard thy supplication and thy prayer which thou didst supplicate before me: I consecrated this house which thou didst build to put my name there even to forever; and mine eyes and my heart were there all the days.

And Jehovah will be seen to Solomon in the night, and he will say to him, I heard thy prayer, and I chose in this place for me for a house of sacrifice.

Depart from me, all ye doing vanity, for Jehovah heard the voice of my weeping. Jehovah heard my supplication; Jehovah will receive my prayer

To the overseer: of David chanting. Waiting, I waited for Jehovah, and he will incline to me, and he will hear my cry.

And it was before they shall call, I will answer; they yet speaking, and I will hear.

For the eyes of the Lord upon the just, and his ears to their prayer: and the face of the Lord against them doing evil.

Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity. Take with you words and turn back to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take away all iniquity, and take good: and we will requite the fruits of our lips. Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.read more.
I will heal their turning away, I loved them largely: for mine anger turned away from him.

And David will say to Nathan, I sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan will say to David, Jehovah also passed over thy sin; thou shalt not die.

And in the unjust one turning back from his injustice which he did; and he will do judgment and justice, he shall save his soul alive. And he will see and turn back from all his transgressions which he did, living, he shall live; he shall not die.

And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn back to Jehovah your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, slow of anger and of much kindness, and lamenting on account of the evil.

And God will see their works that they turned back from their evil way, and God will lament for the evil which he spake to do to them: and he did it not

And he will pray to Jehovah and say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, was not this my word while I was upon my land? For this I anticipated to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and of much kindness, and lamenting for evil.

I say to you, that so shall joy be in heaven over one sinful repenting, more than over ninety-nine just, which have no need of repentance.

And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful. I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.

And it will be as he called and they heard not; so they shall call, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of armies:

If I saw vanity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear.

He stopping his ear from the cry of the poor one also himself shall call and shall not be answered.

But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing.

For this, thus said Jehovah, Behold me bringing evil to them which they shall not be able to go forth from it; and they cried to me and I will not hear to them.

And then shall I confess to them that I never knew you. Go away from me, ye working iniqnity.

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani I this is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, for what hast thou forsaken me?

To the overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

And as many as received him, he gave them authority to be the children of God, to them believing on his name: They were not born of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

He receiving you, receives me; and he receiving me, receives him sending me.

Then truly they having gladly received his word were immersed: and in that day were added about three thousand souls.

And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a dealer in purple garments, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, heard: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to things spoken by Paul.

Therefore as ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him:

And we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God; that we might know things bestowed upon us as a gift by God. Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual. And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.read more.
And the spiritual truly examines all things, and he is examined by no one. For who knew the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him And we have the mind of Christ.

For they being according to the flesh mind things of the flesh; and they according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

And she is happier if she so remain, according to my opinion: and I also think to have the Spirit of God.

And I say, Walk in Spirit, and complete not the desire of the flesh.

He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the pleasure garden of God.

The Lord Jehovah gave to me the tongue of the expert to know to help the weary with a word: he will rouse up in the morning by morning, he will rouse up to me the ear to hear as the expert The Lord Jehovah opened to me the ear and I opposed not, and I drew not back.

And thou sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and thou didst find, for ye shall seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

And thou, O Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing soul: for Jehovah searched all hearts, and he understands every formation of the thoughts: if thou shalt seek him he will be found to thee, and if thou wilt forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.