43 Bible Verses about Receptiveness

But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say to you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which ye see, and have not seen them, and to hear the things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, saith to his mother, Woman, behold thy son. Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not only me, but him that sent me.

and sat him by him, And said to them, whosoever shall receive this child in my name, receiveth me; and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.

For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink:

And all that believed were together, and had all things common, And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, as any one had need.

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart, and of one soul: and not so much as one said that ought of the things which he had, was his own, but they had all things common.

Covereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Where is then the blessedness ye spake of?

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit; for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

That ye may try the things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ,

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

But strong meat belongeth to them of full age, to them who have their senses exercised by habit to discern both good and evil.

But I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity toward Christ. If indeed he that cometh preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another Spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

Beware lest any man make a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of this world, and not after Christ.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is good, that the heart be stablished with grace, not with meats, in which they that have walked have not been profited.

I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him, he beareth much fruit; but, separate from me, ye can do nothing.

Jesus saith to him, Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: happy are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

But seeing the multitudes he was moved with tender compassion for them, because they were faint and scattered, as sheep having no shepherd.

Be not therefore like them; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Then Jesus calling his disciples to him said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Jesus calling his disciples saith to them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away fasting to their own home, they will faint by the way; for divers of them come from far.

And the Lord seeing her, was moved with tender compassion for her, and said, Weep not.

Watch: be vigilant:

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

I say to you, Thus joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, who do not need repentance.

And the publican standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

And then will I declare to them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama-sabachthani? That is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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

But as many as received him, to them gave he privilege to become the sons of God, to them that believe in his name: Who were born, not of blood, nor by the will of the flesh, nor by the will of man, but of God.

and he that entertaineth me, entertaineth him that sent me.

Then they, gladly receiving his word, were baptized; and there were added to them that day about three thousand souls.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to assent to the things which were spoken by Paul.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him;

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which are freely given to us of God. Which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, explaining spiritual things by spiritual words. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit; for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.read more.
But the spiritual man discerneth all things, while he himself is discerned by no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

They that are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

But she is happier, if she continue as she is, in my judgment; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

I say then, walk by the Spirit, and fulfil not the desire of the flesh.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.