21 Bible Verses about Teachableness

And if any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives with open hand to all men, and without upbraiding; and it will be given him.

said, "In solemn truth I tell you that unless you turn and become like little children, you will in no case be admitted into the Kingdom of the Heavens.

At one place where He was praying, when He rose from His knees one of His disciples said to Him, "Master, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

"Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."

Stung to the heart by these words, they said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles, "Brethren, what are we to do?"

"Why, how can I," replied the eunuch, "unless some one explains it to me?" And he earnestly invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

"But rise and go to the city, and you will be told what you are to do.

and, bringing them out of the prison, he exclaimed, "O sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

When He had dismissed the people and had returned to the house, His disciples came to Him with the request, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel sown in the field."

When He was alone, the Twelve and the others who were about Him requested Him to explain His figurative language.

After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech.

They also asked Him, "How is it that the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

After the return of Jesus to the house His disciples asked Him privately, "How is it that we could not expel the spirit?"

Indoors the disciples began questioning Jesus again on the same subject.

"Tell us, When will these things be? and what will be the sign when all these predictions are on the point of being fulfilled?"

There came also a party of tax-gatherers to be baptized, and they asked him, "Rabbi, what are we to do?"

The question was put to Him by a Ruler: "Good Rabbi, what shall I do to inherit the Life of the Ages?"

"What are we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things that God requires?"

Listen, every one who has ears!

"But as for you, blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

The doctrines and the line of conduct which I taught you--both what you heard and what you saw in me-- hold fast to them; and God who gives peace will be with you.