What are some Bible verses about listening?

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James 1:19  

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;  
  

Proverbs 19:20  

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.  
  

Proverbs 18:13  

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.  
  

Proverbs 2:2  

Making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;  
  

Matthew 11:15  

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.  
  

Proverbs 19:27  

Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.  
  

Proverbs 1:33  

But whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.  
  

Proverbs 25:12  

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.  
  

John 8:47  

Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.  
  

Proverbs 18:2  

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.  
  

Revelation 2:7  

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.  
  

Galatians 4:6\-9  

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?  
  

Romans 10:17  

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.  
  

Mark 9:7  

And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”  
  

1 Thessalonians 2:13  

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.  
  

James 1:22  

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.  
  

Revelation 3:20  

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.  
  

1 John 5:15  

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.  
  

Luke 8:21  

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”  
  

Proverbs 1:5  

Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,  
  

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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