38 Bible Verses about Listening - ESV

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.

Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good,
and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.

I love the Lord, because he has heard
my voice and my pleas for mercy.
Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.

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

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life,
but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice;
in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

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

If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

My son, keep your father's commandment,
and forsake not your mother's teaching.

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

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

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
and his ears toward their cry.

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

Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?