12 Bible Verses about Paying Attention To People

to listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have been sending to you again and again, but you have not listened;

He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life.

“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.

A fool rejects his father’s discipline,
But he who regards reproof is sensible.

He who neglects discipline despises himself,
But he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.

As for them, whether they listen or not—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

But you shall speak My words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

Go to the exiles, to the sons of your people, and speak to them and tell them, whether they listen or not, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’”

They will pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’

But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?”

You shall put some of your authority on him, in order that all the congregation of the sons of Israel may obey him.

For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy both me and my son from the inheritance of God.’