Proverbs 23:12

Learning From Your Father

¹¹ For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you. ¹² Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge. ¹³ Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.

Apply Your Heart

Ears to Hear

Proverbs 2:2-6

So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

Proverbs 5:1-2

My son, be attentive to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

Proverbs 22:17

Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart unto my knowledge.

Proverbs 23:19

Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.

Matthew 13:52

Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe who is instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, who brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.

James 1:21-25

Therefore put away all filthiness and extreme wickedness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.