'Listen' in the Bible
And whoever refuses to receive you or even to listen to your Message, as you leave that house or town, shake off the very dust from your feet.
Listen, every one who has ears!
Then will the righteous shine out like the sun in their Father's Kingdom. Listen, every one who has ears!
He was still speaking when a luminous cloud spread over them; and a voice was heard from within the cloud, which said, "This is My Son dearly beloved, in whom is My delight. Listen to Him."
But if he will not listen to you, go again, and ask one or two to go with you, that every word spoken may be attested by two or three witnesses.
"Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, made a fence round it, dug a wine-tank in it, and built a strong lodge; then let the place to vine-dressers, and went abroad.
Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.
"Listen: the sower goes out to sow.
"Listen," He added, "every one who has ears to listen with!"
that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"
But wherever they will not receive you or listen to you, when you leave shake off the very dust from under your feet to bear witness concerning them."
Then Jesus called the people to Him again. "Listen to me, all of you," He said, "and understand.
Then there came a cloud spreading over them, and a voice issued from the cloud, "This is my Son, dearly loved: listen to Him."
Pilate again and again asked Him, "Do you make no reply? Listen to the many charges they are bringing against you."
Some of the bystanders, hearing Him, said, "Listen, he is calling for Elijah!"
But some of the seed falls into good ground, and grows up and yields a return of a hundred for one." While thus speaking, He cried aloud and said, "Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
Then there came a voice from within the cloud: "This is My Son, My Chosen One: listen to Him."
Neither for land nor dunghill is it of any use; they throw it away. Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
Now the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners were everywhere in the habit of coming close to Him to listen to Him;
And all the people came to Him in the Temple, early in the morning, to listen to Him.
Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"
How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.
He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."
"I have told you already," he replied, "and you did not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also mean to be disciples of his?"
We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.
All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them.
I have also other sheep--which do not belong to this fold. Those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become one flock under one Shepherd.
Many of them said, "He is possessed by a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to him?"
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
"Listen, Israelites, to what I say. Jesus, the Nazarene, a man accredited to you from God by miracles and marvels and signs which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know, Him--
Moses declared, "'The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brethren as He has raised me. In all that He says to you, you must listen to Him.
And every one, without exception, who refuses to listen to that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the People.'
But Peter and John replied, "Judge whether it is right in God's sight to listen to you instead of listening to God.
And now, Lord, listen to their threats, and enable Thy servants to proclaim Thy Message with fearless courage,
The reply of Stephen was, "Sirs--brethren and fathers--listen to me. God Most Glorious appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was living in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
Their reply was, "Cornelius, a Captain, an upright and God-fearing man, of whom the whole Jewish nation speaks well, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and listen to what you have to say."
"Immediately, therefore, I sent to you, and I thank you heartily for having come. That is why all of us are now assembled here in God's presence, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."
When they had finished speaking, James said, "Brethren, listen to me.
"Brethren and fathers," he said, "listen to my defence which I now make before you."
But--not to detain you too long--I beg you in your forbearance to listen to a brief statement from us.
But again, did Israel fail to understand? Listen to Moses first. He says, "I will fire you with jealousy against a nation which is no nation, and with fury against a nation devoid of understanding."
In the Law it stands written, "'By men of unknown tongues and by the lips of an unknown nation will I speak to this People, but even then they will not listen to Me', says the Lord."
Tell me--you who want to continue to be subject to Law--will you not listen to the Law?
Be careful not to refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they of old did not escape unpunished when they refused to listen to him who spoke on earth, much less shall we escape who turn a deaf ear to Him who now speaks from Heaven.
Listen, my dearly-loved brethren. Has not God chosen those whom the world regards as poor to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which He has promised to those that love Him?
The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
I wrote to the Church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the first place among them, refuses to listen to us.
Blessed is he who reads and blessed are those who listen to the words of this prophecy and lay to heart what is written in it; for the time for its fulfillment is now close at hand.