listening
What does the Bible say about listening? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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19You know this, my most beloved brothers. So let every man be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to anger.
20Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days.
13Whoever responds before he listens, demonstrates himself to be foolish and deserving of confusion.
2so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.
15Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.
27Son, do not cease listening to doctrine, and do not be ignorant of the sermons of knowledge.
33But whoever will listen to me shall rest without terror, and shall have full enjoyment of abundance, without fear of evils.”
12Whoever reproves the wise and obedient ear is like an earring of gold with a shining pearl.
17Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.
2The foolish do not accept words of prudence, unless you say what is already turning in his heart.
47Whoever is of God, hears the words of God. For this reason, you do not hear them: because you are not of God.”