Is it important to hear God's voice?

Be Holy Podcast

Gods Voice

John 10:27 ESV / 1,672 helpful votes

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 1,488 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 1,361 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

John 5:30 ESV / 1,339 helpful votes

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 5:25 ESV / 1,319 helpful votes

“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

Psalm 29:3 ESV / 1,290 helpful votes

The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters.

John 5:37 ESV / 1,223 helpful votes

And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

Hebrews 3:15 ESV / 1,212 helpful votes

As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 1,203 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.

John 14:26 ESV / 1,199 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Deuteronomy 13:4 ESV / 1,193 helpful votes

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

John 8:47 ESV / 1,131 helpful votes

Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

Genesis 3:8 ESV / 1,128 helpful votes

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Ezekiel 43:2 ESV / 1,121 helpful votes

And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 1,065 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1,043 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 1,039 helpful votes

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 1,026 helpful votes

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 1,017 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.

Exodus 19:19 ESV / 983 helpful votes

And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.

Hebrews 4:7 ESV / 969 helpful votes

Again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”

Luke 11:28 ESV / 922 helpful votes

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

1 John 5:14 ESV / 891 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 1:1-2 ESV / 889 helpful votes

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.

Revelation 3:22 ESV / 887 helpful votes

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

Psalm 85:8 ESV / 885 helpful votes

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

Matthew 17:5 ESV / 877 helpful votes

He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”

Psalm 18:13 ESV / 876 helpful votes

The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

1 Kings 19:12 ESV / 872 helpful votes

And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.

John 16:13 ESV / 868 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Revelation 19:6 ESV / 856 helpful votes

Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

John 6:63 ESV / 831 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.

James 1:22 ESV / 816 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

John 1:1 ESV / 809 helpful votes

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

Psalm 104:7 ESV / 805 helpful votes

At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.

Psalm 77:18 ESV / 801 helpful votes

The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

1 Kings 19:11-12 ESV / 798 helpful votes

And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 787 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.

John 10:3-4 ESV / 783 helpful votes

To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

John 10:2-4 ESV / 755 helpful votes

But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

John 10:16 ESV / 752 helpful votes

And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

Psalm 29:1-11 ESV / 708 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness. The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. ...

Psalm 50:1 ESV / 677 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

John 10:1-42 ESV / 676 helpful votes

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ...

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 661 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Proverbs 2:1-5 ESV / 656 helpful votes

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Revelation 14:2 ESV / 651 helpful votes

And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,

Hebrews 3:7 ESV / 648 helpful votes

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 639 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 633 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Revelation 6:1 ESV / 600 helpful votes

Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!”

1 Kings 19:11-13 ESV / 600 helpful votes

And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper. And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

Hebrews 2:1 ESV / 589 helpful votes

Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 585 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.

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 585 helpful votes

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 572 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

James 1:19 ESV / 569 helpful votes

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

John 10:6 ESV / 556 helpful votes

This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Galatians 3:5 ESV / 550 helpful votes

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 546 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Job 40:9 ESV / 544 helpful votes

Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Revelation 1:10 ESV / 542 helpful votes

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet

Hebrews 10:38 ESV / 541 helpful votes

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Luke 3:22 ESV / 539 helpful votes

And the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

Revelation 4:1 ESV / 537 helpful votes

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 537 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.”

Jeremiah 7:23-24 ESV / 533 helpful votes

But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ 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.

John 10:14 ESV / 531 helpful votes

I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

Ephesians 2:1 ESV / 525 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Acts 13:2 ESV / 525 helpful votes

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 523 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Jeremiah 6:10 ESV / 518 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.

John 10:1-4 ESV / 516 helpful votes

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Joel 2:11 ESV / 514 helpful votes

The Lord utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the Lord is great and very awesome; who can endure it?

Mark 4:24 ESV / 508 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.

1 Corinthians 1:18-21 ESV / 496 helpful votes

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 466 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Revelation 1:15 ESV / 456 helpful votes

His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

John 14:16-17 ESV / 419 helpful votes

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 409 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.

Acts 22:14 ESV / 390 helpful votes

And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;

John 10:27-28 ESV / 389 helpful votes

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Deuteronomy 4:12 ESV / 385 helpful votes

Then the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.

Psalm 32:8-9 ESV / 377 helpful votes

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 375 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 371 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 ...

1 Samuel 3:10 ESV / 369 helpful votes

And the Lord came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.”

Deuteronomy 28:2 ESV / 365 helpful votes

And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 353 helpful votes

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Psalm 25:4-5 ESV / 349 helpful votes

Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

Revelation 2:7 ESV / 277 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.’

Acts 16:6-10 ESV / 265 helpful votes

And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Job 37:4-5 ESV / 262 helpful votes

After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard. God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

Hebrews 12:19 ESV / 249 helpful votes

And the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.

1 Kings 19:9 ESV / 249 helpful votes

There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

Isaiah 30:31-32 ESV / 248 helpful votes

The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, when he strikes with his rod. And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them.

Genesis 28:13-15 ESV / 247 helpful votes

And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 245 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Exodus 3:4 ESV / 245 helpful votes

When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”

Genesis 4:6 ESV / 245 helpful votes

The Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?