'Hearing' in the Bible
For this [reason] I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand,
And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around him and hearing the word of God, he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,
After he had finished all his statements in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
And he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest [they are] in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
But the [seed] on the good soil--these are the ones who, [after] hearing the word, hold fast to [it] with a noble and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.
And they did not find anything they could do, because all the people were paying close attention to [what] they were hearing from him.
And [when] this sound occurred, the crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one was hearing them speaking in his own language.
he said, "I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers arrive also," giving orders [for] him to be guarded in the praetorium of Herod.
I do not have anything definite to write to [my] lord about {him}. Therefore I have brought him before you [all]--and especially before you, King Agrippa--so that [after] this preliminary hearing has taken place, I may have something to write.
saying, 'Go to this people and say, "{You will keep on hearing} and will never understand, and {you will keep on seeing} and will never perceive.
Consequently, faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing through the word about Christ.
If the whole body [were] an eye, where [would] the hearing [be]? If the whole [were] hearing, where [would] the sense of smell [be]?
and they were only hearing, "The one formerly persecuting us is now proclaiming the faith that formerly he was attempting to destroy,"
I want only to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Therefore does the one who gives you the Spirit and who works miracles among you [do so] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Because of this I also, hearing of {your faith} in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
and they will turn away from the hearing of the truth, but will turn to myths.
Concerning this {we have much to say and it is difficult to explain}, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
(for that righteous man, [as he] lived among them day after day, was tormenting [his] righteous soul by the lawless deeds [he was] seeing and hearing),
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Bible Theasaurus
- Appeal (46 instances)
- Audience (17 instances)
- Discover (49 instances)
- Earshot (2 instances)
- Hear (791 instances)
- Hearing (531 instances)
- Learn (153 instances)
- Listen (699 instances)
- Listening (102 instances)
- Try (134 instances)
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