48 Bible Verses about attention

Pay attention and listen to my message! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say!

Be conscientious about how you live and what you teach. Persevere in this, because by doing so you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

Also, do not pay attention to everything that people say; otherwise, you might even hear your servant cursing you.

The one who deals wisely in a matter will find success, and blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord.

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

Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my instruction.

Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

Therefore we must pay closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,

Then those who respected the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name.

And he said to them, "Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you.

"For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.

Moreover, we possess the prophetic word as an altogether reliable thing. You do well if you pay attention to this as you would to a light shining in a murky place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds,

"For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, 'Do not let the prophets or those among you who claim to be able to predict the future by divination deceive you. And do not pay any attention to the dreams that you are encouraging them to dream.

My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

You see many things, but don't comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear."

and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.

Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better.

When they came they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone's favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"

Therefore be very careful how you live -- not as unwise but as wise,

Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.

Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!

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

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God's redemptive plan that operates by faith.

Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to the deeds he is doing -- the bringing of unjustified charges against us with evil words! And not being content with that, he not only refuses to welcome the brothers himself, but hinders the people who want to do so and throws them out of the church!

Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

However, God heard; he listened to my prayer.

Listen, children, to a father's instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say, "You sit here in a good place," and to the poor person, "You stand over there," or "Sit on the floor"?

You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.

"What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

Take heed because of him, and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for my name is in him.

Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings.

"For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;