listen
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5By listening, the wise shall become wiser and the intelligent shall possess governments.
12Whoever reproves the wise and obedient ear is like an earring of gold with a shining pearl.
8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother, 9so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.
19You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
17Incline your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Then apply your heart to my doctrine.
15In the cheerfulness of the king’s countenance, there is life. And his clemency is like belated rain.
5They are of the world. Therefore, they speak about the world, and the world listens to them. 6We are of God. Whoever knows God, listens to us. Whoever is not of God, does not listen to us. In this way, we know the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
1All you who thirst, come to the waters. And you who have no money: hurry, buy and eat. Approach, buy wine and milk, without money and without barter. 2Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and expend your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen very closely to me, and eat what is good, and then your soul will be delighted by a full measure. 3Incline your ear and draw near to me. Listen, and your soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, by the faithful mercies of David.
7For the lips of the priests will keep knowledge, and they will request the law from his mouth, because he is an angel of the Lord of hosts.
15The way of the foolish is right in his own eyes. But whoever is wise listens to counsels.
2May the wise hear my words, and may the educated listen to me. 3For the ear examines words, and the mouth discerns foods by the taste.
14And whoever has neither received you, nor listened to your words, departing from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.
33But whoever will listen to me shall rest without terror, and shall have full enjoyment of abundance, without fear of evils.”
31And we know that God does not hear sinners. But if anyone is a worshipper of God and does his will, then he heeds him.
37And so Pilate said to him, “You are a king, then?” Jesus answered, “You are saying that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world: so that I may offer testimony to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.”
31The ear that listens to the reproofs of life shall abide in the midst of the wise. 32Whoever rejects discipline despises his own soul. But whoever agrees to correction is a possessor of the heart.