What other scriptures highlight the importance of listening to God's teachings? Key passage • Deuteronomy 32:1 — “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.” Echoes in the Law • Deuteronomy 6:4 — “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.” • Exodus 15:26 — “He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you.”” • Exodus 19:5 — “Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.” Wisdom and Psalms • Psalm 81:8 — “Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you: O Israel, if you would only listen to Me!” • Psalm 95:7-8 — “For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the wilderness.” • Proverbs 1:8 — “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.” • Proverbs 4:1 — “Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.” • Ecclesiastes 5:1 — “Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing wrong.” Prophets • Isaiah 55:2-3 — “Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. And I will make with you an everlasting covenant…” • Jeremiah 7:23 — “‘But I commanded them, “Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. Walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.”’” • Ezekiel 3:10 — “Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, listen carefully to all the words I speak to you and take them to heart.’” Life of Jesus • Matthew 17:5 — “While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!’” • Luke 8:18 — “Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.” • John 10:27 — “My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.” Early Church Instructions • Acts 3:22-23 — “For Moses said: ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you. Everyone who does not listen to that prophet will be completely cut off from his people.’” • James 1:19 — “My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger.” • James 1:22 — “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” Final Exhortations • Hebrews 2:1 — “We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” • Revelation 2:7 — “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat of the tree of life in the paradise of God.” |
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