Bible Verses about โhearingโ
The Bible contains 19 verses about hearing across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โSo, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;โ
โfor the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.โ
โPure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.โ
โIf anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.โ
โBut be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.โ
โBut 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.โ
โFor if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;โ
โfor he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.โ
โSo faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.โ
โTherefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.โ
โso shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.โ
โBut he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it."โ
โHe 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.โ
โHe who has ears to hear, let him hear.โ
โThat in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.โ
โdon't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,โ
โTherefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,โ
โFor indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.โ
โI just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?โ
