hearing

¹⁷Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.

²I wish to know only this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

¹¹so also will my word be, which will go forth from my mouth. It will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish whatever I will, and it will prosper in the tasks for which I sent it.

¹⁵Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

²⁸Then he said, “Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”

¹⁵But those which were on good soil are those who, upon hearing the word with a good and noble heart, retain it, and they bring forth fruit in patience.

¹⁹You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger. ²⁰For the anger of man does not accomplish the justice of God. ²¹Because of this, having cast away all uncleanness and an abundance of malice, receive with meekness the newly-grafted Word, which is able to save your souls. ²²So be doers of the Word, and not listeners only, deceiving yourselves. ²³For if anyone is a listener of the Word, but not also a doer, he is comparable to a man gazing into a mirror upon the face that he was born with; ²⁴and after considering himself, he went away and promptly forgot what he had seen.

²⁴And he said to them: “Consider what you hear. With whatever measure you have measured out, it shall be measured back to you, and more shall be added to you.

²For this was announced to us in a similar manner as to them. But the mere hearing of the word did not benefit them, since it was not joined together with a faith in those things that they heard.

⁷Because of this, it is just as the Holy Spirit says: “If today you hear his voice, ⁸harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, the very day of temptation, in the desert,