Thematic Bible: Careless hearing
Thematic Bible
Careless hearing » Sentimentality
Behold, you are to them like a love song by one who has a pleasant voice and plays well on a stringed instrument [merely to entertain them]; for they hear your words but do not practice them.
Verse Concepts
Careless hearing » Forgetfulness
For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like.
Careless hearing » Shallowness
Careless hearing » Disobedience
Careless hearing » Hardness
Deception » Of self » Careless hearing
But prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying God’s precepts], and not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to internalize its meaning], deluding yourselves [by unsound reasoning contrary to the truth].
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