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Bible Verses About Hearing
46 Scriptures on Hearing

1 Corinthians 12:17

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

2 Kings 18:26

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

2 Kings 4:31

Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened."

2 Peter 2:8

(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

2 Samuel 18:12

The man said to Joab, "Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn't put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, 'Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.'

Acts 25:23

So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Acts 28:26

saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

Acts 28:27

For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.'

Acts 5:5

Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

Acts 9:38

As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.

Acts 9:7

The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days come," says the Lord the LORD, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

Baruch 1:19

Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt, until this present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice.

Baruch 1:3

Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and to the ears of all the people who came to hear the book,

Baruch 1:4

and in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest to the highest, even of all those who dwelt at Babylon by the river Sud;

Deuteronomy 31:11

when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Exodus 10:2

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am the LORD."

Exodus 24:7

He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that the LORD has spoken will we do, and be obedient."

Ezekiel 10:13

As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].

Ezekiel 9:5

To the others he said in my hearing, Go through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have pity;

Galatians 3:2

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Galatians 3:5

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Genesis 23:10

Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Hebrews 5:11

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

Isaiah 11:3

His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--

Isaiah 36:11

Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don't speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

Job 33:8

"Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

Job 42:5

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

Luke 18:36

Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.

Luke 20:45

In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

Luke 4:21

He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Luke 7:1

After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

Luke 8:10

He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

Luke 8:50

But Jesus hearing it, answered him, "Don't be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed."

Mark 3:8

from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.

Mark 4:12

that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

Mark 6:2

When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

Matthew 13:13

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

Matthew 13:14

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

Matthew 13:15

for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'

Philemon 1:5

hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.

Proverbs 28:9

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

Romans 10:17

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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