26 Bible Verses about attention

Look to yourself as well as to your teaching. Persevere in this, for your doing so will mean Salvation for yourself as well as for your hearers.

Let every one test his own work, and then his cause for satisfaction will be in himself and not in a comparison of himself with his neighbor;

Therefore we must give still more heed to what we were taught, for fear we should drift away.

Take care what you listen to," said Jesus. "The measure you mete will be meted out to you, and more will be added for you.

And still stronger is the assurance that we have in the teaching of the Prophets; to which you will do well to pay attention (as if it were a lamp shining in a gloomy place), until the Day dawns and the Morning Star rises in your hearts.

and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth.

These men came to him and said: "Teacher, we know that you are an honest man, and are not afraid of any one, for you pay no regard to a man's position, but teach the Way of God honestly; are we right in paying taxes to the Emperor, or not?

Take great care, then, how you live--not unwisely but wisely,

And one and all should consider, not only their own interests, but also the interests of others.

While we, for our part, will devote ourselves to Prayer, and to the delivery of the Message."

nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith.

Therefore, when I come, I shall not forget his conduct in ridiculing us with his wicked tongue. Not content with that, he not only declines to recognize our Brothers himself, but actually prevents those who would, and expels them from the Church.

Till I come, apply yourself to public reading, preaching, and teaching.

And you are deferential to the man who is wearing grand clothes, and say--"There is a good seat for you here," but to the poor man--"You must stand; or sit down there by my footstool,"

You are scrupulous in keeping Days and Months and Seasons and Years!

Leaving the Temple Courts, Jesus was walking away, when his disciples came up to draw his attention to the Temple buildings.