48 Bible Verses about attention
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Listen, and hear my voice! Listen attentively, and hear my word!
Fix [your] attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for [by] doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
Do not pay attention to everything people say, lest you hear your own servant curse you.
He who is attentive to a matter will find goodness, and he who trusts in Yahweh, his own happiness.
Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise; you shall apply your heart to my teaching.
But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in someone else.
Because of this, [it is] all the more necessary [that] we pay attention to the [things] we have heard, lest we drift away.
Because I called out and you refused me, I stretched out my hand, yet there is none who heeds.
Then those who revered Yahweh spoke {with one another}. And Yahweh listened attentively and heard, and a scroll of remembrance was written {before him} of those who revere Yahweh and ponder his name.
And he said to them, "Take care what you hear! With the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you, and will be added to you.
Indeed, God speaks in one [way], even in two, [yet] [someone] does not perceive it.
and we possess [as] more reliable the prophetic word, to which you do well [if you] pay attention to [it] as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,
For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who [are] in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you, and you must not listen to your dreams that you [are] causing [them] to dream.
My child, be attentive to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear;
You see many [things], but you do not observe. [His] ears are open, but he does not hear.
not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of people who turn away from the truth.
Come near, nations, to hear; and peoples, listen attentively! Let the earth hear, and that which fills it; [the] world and all its offspring.
Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in [their own] plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and {they became worse instead of better}.
And [when they] came, they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and {you do not care what anyone thinks}, {because you do not regard the opinion of people} but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or should we not pay?"
each of you not looking out for {your own interests}, but also each of you [for] {the interests} of others.
Hear, O daughter, and {discern} and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.
and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause useless speculations rather than God's plan [that is] by faith.
Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to {the deeds he is doing}, disparaging us with evil words. And not being content with these, he does not receive the brothers himself, and he hinders those wanting [to do so] and throws [them] out of the church.
However, God has listened; he has attended to the sound of my prayer.
Children, listen [to the] instruction of a father, and be attentive [in order] to know insight.
and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, "Be seated here in a good place," and to the poor person you say, "You stand or be seated there by my footstool,"
"What [is] a human being that you make him great and that {you fix your mind on him},
Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, because he will not forgive your transgression, for my name is in him
My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings,
And [as] Jesus went out of the temple [courts] he was going along, and his disciples came up to point out to him the buildings of the temple.
"Indeed, please inquire of former generations, and consider {what their ancestors have found},
Topics on Attention
Attention Seekers
John 5:44How are you able to believe, [if you] accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory [which is] from the only God?
God Paid Attention To Me
Psalm 61:5For you, O God, you have heard my vows. You have given [me] the heritage of those who fear your name.
God Paid Attention To Them
Genesis 16:11And the angel of Yahweh said to her: "Behold, you are pregnant and shall have a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, for Yahweh has listened to your suffering.
God Pays Attention
Genesis 16:11And the angel of Yahweh said to her: "Behold, you are pregnant and shall have a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, for Yahweh has listened to your suffering.
Pay Attention O God!
Psalm 27:7Hear, O Yahweh, my voice [when] I call, and be gracious to me and answer me.
Pay Attention To People!
Exodus 18:19Now listen to my voice; I will advise you, and may God be with you. You be for the people before God, and you bring the issues to God.
Paying Attention To God
Jeremiah 23:18For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he has seen and heard his word? Who has listened attentively [to] his word and heard [it]?
Paying Attention To People
Jeremiah 26:5to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent to you, {over and over again}, though you have not listened,
Will God Pay Attention?
2 Kings 19:4Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all of the words of [the] chief commander whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to insult [the] living God, and he will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remainder who are left.'"