28 Bible Verses about Listening

Then Peter stood with the Eleven around him, and raising his voice he addressed them, "Men of Judea and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and give close attention to my words.

Then Paul got up and motioned with his hand and said: "Fellow Israelites, and you who reverence God, listen!

"So you must understand that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen; and they will listen to it!"

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud cast its shadow over them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I am delighted. Keep on listening to Him!"

Then a cloud came and was circling over them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my Son, my Beloved; keep on listening to Him!"

Then a voice came out of the cloud and said, "This is my Son, my Chosen One; continue to listen to Him!"

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me,

And He called the people to Him and said, "Listen to this and learn it!

Again He called the people to Him and said, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever pays no attention to you pays no attention to me, and whoever pays no attention to me pays no attention to Him who sent me."

All who came as such before me are thieves and robbers, but the true sheep would not listen to them.

You must understand this, my dearly loved brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to get angry;

And after three days they finally found Him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Listen, my dearly loved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

Dearly beloved, stop believing every so-called spiritual utterance, but keep testing them to see whether they come from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them listen to them.' But he pleaded, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, they would repent.' Then he answered, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, even if someone rises from the dead.'"

"Again, if your brother wrongs you, go and while alone with him show him the wrong. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. But if he does not listen to you, take along with you one or two others, so as to have every word confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, report it to the church. And if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and as a tax-collector.

But He said, "Yes, but better still, blessed are those who listen to God's message and practice it!"

Keep on obeying this message; do not merely listen to it, and so deceive yourselves. Because if anyone merely listens to the message without obeying it, he is like a man who looks in a mirror at his own face, for he looks and then goes off and at once forgets how he looked.

"So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation. And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, but it did not fall, for its pillars had been laid on a rocky foundation. And anyone who listens to my words and does not practice their teaching, will be like an imprudent man who built his house on sand.read more.
And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the wind blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed, and the wreck of it was complete."

Everyone who comes to me and continues to listen to my words and practices their teachings, I will show you whom he is like. He is like a man who was building a house, who dug deep, and laid its foundation upon the rock; and when a flood came, the torrent burst upon that house but it could not shake it, because it was well built. But the man who merely hears them and does not practice them is like a man who built a house upon the ground without a foundation. The torrent burst upon it, and at once it collapsed, and the wreck of that house was complete."

For merely hearing the law read does not make men upright with God, but men who practice the law will be recognized as upright.

Once as the crowd was pressing against Him to hear the message of God, He found Himself standing on the shore of Lake Gennesaret.

While all the people were listening, He said to His disciples,

She had a sister named Mary who took her seat at the Lord's feet, and remained listening to His message.

Among them was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods from the town of Thyatira, and she stayed to listen to us. She was already a worshiper of God, and the Lord so moved upon her heart that she accepted the message spoken by Paul.

Paul answered, "In brief or at length, I would to God that not only you but all my hearers today were what I am -- excepting these chains!"