100 Bible Verses about Ears

Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 238 helpful votes

The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 200 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 11:15 ESV / 195 helpful votes

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark 4:9 ESV / 177 helpful votes

And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Matthew 13:9 ESV / 154 helpful votes

He who has ears, let him hear.”

Luke 8:8 ESV / 149 helpful votes

And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

James 1:19 ESV / 144 helpful votes

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

Psalm 40:6 ESV / 133 helpful votes

In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

Isaiah 6:10 ESV / 120 helpful votes

Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Matthew 13:16 ESV / 116 helpful votes

But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

Acts 28:27 ESV / 103 helpful votes

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Mark 4:23-24 ESV / 95 helpful votes

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Luke 14:35 ESV / 94 helpful votes

It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 91 helpful votes

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Jeremiah 19:3 ESV / 87 helpful votes

You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.

Proverbs 25:12 ESV / 85 helpful votes

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

Matthew 13:15 ESV / 79 helpful votes

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Mark 4:23 ESV / 78 helpful votes

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Luke 1:44 ESV / 76 helpful votes

For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Matthew 13:43 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

Revelation 2:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes

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.’

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 67 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Romans 10:17 ESV / 66 helpful votes

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

Exodus 21:6 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Ezekiel 16:12 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Isaiah 33:15-16 ESV / 56 helpful votes

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Revelation 3:22 ESV / 50 helpful votes

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”

Revelation 2:29 ESV / 49 helpful votes

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

1 John 4:1 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Zechariah 7:11 ESV / 48 helpful votes

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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,

Isaiah 43:8 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

Proverbs 21:13 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Revelation 3:6 ESV / 39 helpful votes

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Revelation 2:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’

Romans 12:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Deuteronomy 29:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

Proverbs 28:9 ESV / 36 helpful votes

If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Leviticus 19:28 ESV / 36 helpful votes

You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Revelation 3:13 ESV / 35 helpful votes

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Proverbs 15:31 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.

Psalm 34:15 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.

Revelation 2:17 ESV / 33 helpful votes

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

Jeremiah 6:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.

Isaiah 35:5 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;

Exodus 29:20 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And you shall kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar.

Romans 11:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes

As it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”

Jeremiah 5:21 ESV / 31 helpful votes

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

Acts 7:51 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Deuteronomy 15:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.

Psalm 18:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes

In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

Job 33:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,

Psalm 58:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

John 8:43 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

Jeremiah 35:15 ESV / 27 helpful votes

I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 27 helpful votes

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Mark 8:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?

Isaiah 50:4-5 ESV / 26 helpful votes

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Ezekiel 12:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.

Jeremiah 7:24 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

1 Timothy 4:1-3 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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.

Acts 7:57 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.

Genesis 35:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

2 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes

And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Mark 7:35 ESV / 21 helpful votes

And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

Mark 4:24 ESV / 21 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

Leviticus 8:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes

And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Psalm 94:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

1 John 5:14 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Job 36:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes

He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.

Proverbs 2:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 14:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Mark 7:33 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue.

Isaiah 50:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.

Psalm 130:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes

O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Mark 7:32-35 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. 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.

Luke 22:51 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But Jesus said, “No more of this!” And he touched his ear and healed him.

Matthew 6:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,

Ezekiel 8:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 Samuel 1:1-28 ESV / 15 helpful votes

There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord. On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. ...

Isaiah 55:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Job 12:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

John 14:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Psalm 39:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

Judges 8:24 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

Deuteronomy 14:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

1 John 2:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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