43 Bible Verses about Receptiveness

But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!" Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

Whoever receives one little child like this in my name receives me.

"Whoever receives one of these little children in my name receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me."

and said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great."

for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you took me in,

And all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as anyone had need.

Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common.

it does not rejoice in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

and though my fleshly condition was a trial to you, you did not despise or scorn me, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus himself.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ;

But test everything; hold fast to what is good.

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to human tradition, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.

Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Now Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have been with me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."

"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come a long distance."

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."

Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

I tell you that in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!' I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers!'

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,

But to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

"He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, who was a worshiper of God, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him,

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand the things freely given to us by God. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.read more.
But the spiritual man judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.'