What Does the Bible Say About Attentive?

Proverbs 4:20-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. ...

Acts 17:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Psalm 104:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.

Jude 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

1 Timothy 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

Matthew 28:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. ...

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

2 Corinthians 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 24:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Isaiah 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Nehemiah 8:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel. So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month. And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law. And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand. And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood. ...

Deuteronomy 29:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

2 Timothy 3:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Corinthians 12:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.

John 12:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...

22 Bible Verses about Attentive

Proverbs 4:20-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 104:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jude 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 28:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 24:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nehemiah 8:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 29:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 12:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 12:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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22 Bible Verses about Attentive

Proverbs 4:20-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nehemiah 8:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 29:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 4:20-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Acts 17:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 104:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jude 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 28:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 24:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nehemiah 8:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 29:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 12:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 12:34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 1 helpful vote