43 Bible Verses about Receptiveness

But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. For I tell you truly, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see what you see and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear and have not heard it.

Then Jesus seeing his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, 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 [house].

and whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me;

Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me, but him that sent me.

and said to them, Whoever receives this little child in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives him that sent me. For he that is least among you all, he shall be the greatest.

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 common; and they sold their possessions and estates, and distributed them to all as any one had need;

AND the multitude that believed had one heart and one soul, and none said that anything of his possessions was his; but they had all things common.

rejoices not in wickedness, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes for all things, and endures all things.

and my trial in my flesh you despised not nor rejected, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.

that you may prove the excellent, that you may be without fault and without offense in the day of Christ,

Prove all things, hold fast the good;

but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.

but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ. For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

See that no one leads you off as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing.

Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and believed.

And seeing the multitudes he had compassion on them because they were faint and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Be not, therefore, like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

And Jesus calling his disciples, said, I pity the multitude, for it is now three days that they have continued with me, and they have nothing to eat; I will not dismiss them fasting lest they faint by the way.

I have compassion on the multitude, because already they have continued with me three days, and have nothing to eat; and if I send them fasting to their homes, they will faint by the way, for some of them are from afar.

And seeing her, the Lord had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not.

casting all your care upon him, for he cares for you.

for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears attend to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

So, I tell you, there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that changes his mind, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need a change of mind.

And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God, be propitious to me a sinner. I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than that; for every one that exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

and then will I confess to them, I never knew you; depart from me you that commit wickedness.

and at about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani? which is interpreted, my God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me?

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord,

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become sons of God, to them that believe on his name, who are born not of superior blood, nor of a will of the flesh, nor of a will of man, but of God.

He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me.

Then those that received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls;

And a certain woman by the name of Lydia, a dealer in purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard, whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the [words] spoken by Paul.

As therefore you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

And we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things given us by God, which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the [things] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, for they are spiritually discerned.read more.
But the spiritual man discerns all things, and is himself perceived by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit;

But she is happier if she continues thus, in my opinion, and I think also I have the Spirit of God.

And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh.

Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that conquers will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.