Top 25 Bible Verses About Listening (ESV)

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

20   Listen to advice and accept instruction,
    that you may gain wisdom in the future.

13   If one gives an answer before he hears,
    it is his folly and shame.

2   making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding;

15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

27   Cease to hear instruction, my son,
    and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

33   but whoever listens to me will dwell secure
    and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”

12   Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold
    is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

47 Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

2   A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
    but only in expressing his opinion.

7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

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

7 And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”

13 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

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

20 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.

15 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.

21 But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

19 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”

15   The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
    but a wise man listens to advice.

19 Do not quench the Spirit.

4:1 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 2 And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 3 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 5 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. 6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 8 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” 9 And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

10 And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 11 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, 12 so that

  “‘they may indeed see but not perceive,
    and may indeed hear but not understand,
  lest they should turn and be forgiven.’”

13 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? 14 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 16 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. 17 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. 18 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, 19 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 20 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”

2 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.

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