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 13:12For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
• Luke 19:26‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
• Mark 4:23–25If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.”
• Matt 25:29For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.
• Prov 2:2–5So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
• John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• Matt 7:22–23Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• 1 Cor 8:2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
• 1 Cor 14:37If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
• 1 Cor 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
• Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
• Acts 10:33Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
• Jas 1:19–26So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
• Luke 16:2–4He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
• Luke 12:20–21“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’
• 1 Cor 13:1–3If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
• Deut 32:46–47He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
• Luke 16:19–25“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
• Mark 13:14But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (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, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”
• Prov 14:12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
• Phil 3:4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

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