Listening

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy. — read the full passage →

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

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

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” — read the full passage →

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh. — read the full passage →

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, — read the full passage →

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. — read the full passage →

“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. — read the full passage →

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak; for your servant hears.”

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig. — read the full passage →

But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. — read the full passage →

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.

Don’t quench the Spirit.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.

It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings. — read the full passage →

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst,

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. — read the full passage →

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed. — read the full passage →

“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

(after that Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem),

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name. — read the full passage →

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. — read the full passage →

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.