48 Bible Verses about attention

Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.

Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.

Whoever gives thought to the wordwill discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.

Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,

Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.

And he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.

And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,

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

He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.

Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?"

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.

So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,

and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, "You sit here in a good place,"while you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit down at my feet,"

You observe days and months and seasons and years!

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,

Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

"For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.