Proverbs 8:34
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34 Happy is the one who listens to me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting beside my doors.(A)
Luke 11:28
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28 But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”(A)
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Matthew 7:24
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Hearers and Doers
24 “Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.(A)
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Proverbs 3:13
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The True Wealth
13 Happy are those who find wisdom
and those who get understanding,
Acts 2:42
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42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
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Luke 10:39
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39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus’s[a] feet and listened to what he was saying.(A)
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- 10.39 Other ancient authorities read the Lord’s
Acts 17:11-12
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11 These Jews were more receptive than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message very eagerly and examined the scriptures every day to see whether these things were so.(A) 12 Many of them therefore believed, including not a few Greek women and men of high standing.
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Proverbs 3:18
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18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her;
those who hold her fast are called happy.(A)
Proverbs 2:3-4
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3 if you indeed cry out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures—(A)
Psalm 84:10
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10 For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than live in the tents of wickedness.(A)
Psalm 27:4
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4 One thing I asked of the Lord;
this I seek:
to live in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the Lord,
and to inquire in his temple.(A)
Proverbs 1:21
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21 At the busiest corner she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
James 1:22-25
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22 But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.(A) 23 For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves[a] in a mirror;(B) 24 for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. 25 But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.(C)
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- 1.23 Gk at the face of his birth
Luke 1:6
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6 Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.(A)
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Psalm 92:13
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13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
they flourish in the courts of our God.
John 8:31-32
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True Disciples
31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”(A)
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