What Does the Bible Say About Hearing And Seeing Evil?

Luke 11:34 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 20 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,

Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

James 1:19-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ...

Matthew 6:22-23 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Matthew 13:15 ESV / 9 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.’

Psalm 94:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 18:9-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God, ...

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Romans 10:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 5 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”—

John 10:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

John 9:39-41 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Isaiah 8:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

Ecclesiastes 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 29:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Numbers 10:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said, “Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.

Leviticus 8:23 ESV / 4 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.

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

1 John 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Abstain from every form of evil.

2 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 3 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.

Ecclesiastes 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

One person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Proverbs 25:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, and a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Psalm 146:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.

Job 42:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 19:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 29:20 ESV / 3 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.

Exodus 21:6 ESV / 3 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.

Exodus 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 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.

John 6:63 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Mark 8:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?

Mark 7:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

Isaiah 64:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.

Genesis 29:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

45 Bible Verses about Hearing And Seeing Evil

Luke 11:34 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:19-27 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:22-23 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 94:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 18:9-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 9:39-41 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 8:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 29:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 10:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 8:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 13:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 25:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 146:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 42:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 29:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 21:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 6:63 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 8:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 7:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 64:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 29:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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