23 Bible Verses about Hearing God's Word

"This is the seed sown by the wayside. And the word, and at once receives it with joy.

And like the sowing upon 'stony ground' are those who, whenever they hear the Word, at once receive it with joy,

"Those on the rock are people who, upon hearing, receive the word with joy; but they have no root. For a time indeed they all believe, but in time of temptation they fall away.

"And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

There are others who are 'sown among thorns.'

"And that which fell upon thorns is those who have heard, but as they go on their way of word is choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life; so they bring no fruit of perfection.

"But the seed sown in good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit, and makes now an hundredfold, now sixty, now thirty."

"Those by the wayside are people who hear, but then comes the devil and carries off the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and not be saved.

As soon as they hear it, Satan immediately comes and snatches away the Word which has been sown in them.

"And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

But those, on the other hand, who were sown on that good soil, are those who listen to the Word, and welcome it, and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold."

"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

"It is written in the Prophets, "And they shall all of them be taught of God. Every one who has listened to the father and learns from him, comes to me.

"Then he said: "'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know his will; and to see the righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

who was caught up into Paradise, and heard unutterable words which no human being is permitted to utter.

And become doers of the Word, and not merely hearers, deceiving yourselves.

Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

But the man who looks closely into the perfect law??he law of liberty??nd continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.

For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

On one occasion when he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, the crowd pressed upon him to listen to the word of God.

"So I sent for you without delay, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to speak."

On the next Sabbath almost the entire city was gathered together to know the word of God.

But I ask, Did they fail to hear? Yes, truly, Their sound has gone out unto all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.