48 Bible Verses about attention

Listen and hear my voice.
Pay attention and hear what I say.

Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Don’t pay attention to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you,

The one who understands a matter finds success,
and the one who trusts in the Lord will be happy.

Pay attention, Job, and listen to me.
Be quiet, and I will speak.

Listen closely, pay attention to the words of the wise,
and apply your mind to my knowledge.

My son, give me your heart,
and let your eyes observe my ways.

But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.

We must, therefore, pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away.

Since I called out and you refused,
extended my hand and no one paid attention,

At that time those who feared the Lord spoke to one another. The Lord took notice and listened. So a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Yahweh and had high regard for His name.

Then He said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear. By the measure you use, it will be measured and added to you.

For God speaks time and again,
but a person may not notice it.

So we have the prophetic word strongly confirmed. You will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Know well the condition of your flock,
and pay attention to your herds,

For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you, and don’t listen to the dreams you elicit from them,

My son, pay attention to my wisdom;
listen closely to my understanding

Though seeing many things, you do not obey.
Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”

and may not pay attention to Jewish myths and the commands of men who reject the truth.

You nations, come here and listen;
you peoples, pay attention!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it,
the world and all that comes from it.

Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

When they came, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know You are truthful and defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality but teach truthfully the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—

Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Listen, daughter, pay attention and consider:
forget your people and your father’s house,

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the preaching ministry.”

or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.

This is why, if I come, I will remind him of the works he is doing, slandering us with malicious words. And he is not satisfied with that! He not only refuses to welcome the brothers himself, but he even stops those who want to do so and expels them from the church.

Until I come, give your attention to public reading, exhortation, and teaching.

However, God has listened;
He has paid attention to the sound of my prayer.

Listen, my sons, to a father’s discipline,
and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,

If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”

You observe special days, months, seasons, and years.

What is man, that You think so highly of him
and pay so much attention to him?

Be attentive to him and listen to his voice. Do not defy him, because he will not forgive your acts of rebellion, for My name is in him.

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,

As Jesus left and was going out of the temple complex, His disciples came up and called His attention to the temple buildings.

For ask the previous generation,
and pay attention to what their fathers discovered,