Sidebar: Selected Verses on Hearing God’s Word
Deuteronomy 32:1 (NIV)Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.
Psalm 78:1 (NIV)
My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.
Jeremiah 7:2 (NIV)
“Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message: “‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord.
Ezekiel 3:10 (NIV)
And he said to me, “Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the words I speak to you.
Amos 8:11 (NIV)
“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
Zechariah 7:12 (NIV)
They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.
Matthew 7:24 (NIV)
[The Wise and Foolish Builders] “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Luke 11:28 (NIV)
He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
John 12:47 (NIV)
“If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
Acts 13:44 (NIV)
On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.
Acts 22:14 (NIV)
“Then he said: ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth.
Romans 10:17 (NIV)
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
Romans 10:18 (NIV)
But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NIV)
And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.
1 John 1:1 (NIV)
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.
Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.
Revelation 22:18 (NIV)
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll.
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© Phil Collins, Ph.D., 2014. This material was created in partnership with the Taylor University Center for Scripture Engagement.
