50 Bible Verses about Listening To God

Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.

Pay attention and listen to my message! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say!

and listened to me. As long as I live, I will call to him when I need help.

Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."

O land of Judah, land of Judah, land of Judah! Listen to what the Lord has to say!

But he replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!"

Then the Lord said to me, "When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world's perspective and the world listens to them.

"So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

And he said to me, "Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.

The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

Take away from me your noisy songs; I don't want to hear the music of your stringed instruments.

Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.

But he replied to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

I call to you for you will answer me, O God. Listen to me! Hear what I say!

"'It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,' the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.

How long, Lord, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, "Violence!" But you do not intervene!

O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don't delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name."

"Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still and consider the wonders God works.

The one who has ears had better listen!

The ear that hears and the eye that sees -- the Lord has made them both.

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.

You see many things, but don't comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear."

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,

Pay attention, Job -- listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

So, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf. Do not plead with me to save them. For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them."

Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.

If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."

But Peter and the apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than people.

Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.

You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again. But you have not paid any attention to them.

You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it."

But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue and you must say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says.' Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

"Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the Lord speaks: "I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.

Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name 'Israel,' and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the Lord, and invoke the God of Israel -- but not in an honest and just manner.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

"But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.

But the people of Jerusalem and Judah would not listen or pay any attention. They would not stop the wickedness they were doing nor quit sacrificing to other gods.

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

The Lord said to Samuel, "Do everything the people request of you. For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.