Luke 8:18

Jesus warns His hearers to pay careful attention, for the responsive gain more while the unresponsive lose even what they think they have. How we hear has eternal consequences.

Cross-references · 25

• Matt 13:12Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
• Luke 19:26He replied, ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
• Mark 4:23–25If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
• Matt 25:29For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
• Prov 2:2–5if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
• John 15:2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
• Heb 2:1We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
• Matt 7:22–23Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• 1 Cor 8:2The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
• 1 Cor 14:37If anyone considers himself a prophet or spiritual person, let him acknowledge that what I am writing you is the Lord’s command.
• Rom 12:3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.
• 1 Cor 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
• Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
• Acts 10:33So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”
• Jas 1:19–26My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
• Luke 16:2–4So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’
• Luke 12:20–21But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
• 1 Cor 13:1–3If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
• Deut 32:46–47he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
• Luke 16:19–25Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
• Mark 13:14So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
• Luke 9:44“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”
• Prov 14:12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
• Phil 3:4though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

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