Ouvir
Ouvir é uma disciplina espiritual essencial. A Bíblia exorta: 'Quem tem ouvidos, ouça.' A fé vem pelo ouvir, e ouvir é mais que escutar — é obedecer e agir.
A fé vem pelo ouvir
Sem ouvir a Palavra, não há fé. A pregação do evangelho gera fé nos corações de quem ouve com disposição e humildade.
Therefore faith is of hearing [or by hearing], but hearing by the word of Christ.
Therefore faith is of hearing [or by hearing], but hearing by the word of Christ.
How then shall they inwardly call him, into whom they have not believed? or how shall they believe to him, whom they have not heard? How shall they hear, without a preacher?
He that hath ears of hearing, hear he.
that the prophecy of Isaiah saying be fulfilled in them, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not under-stand; and ye seeing shall see, and ye shall not see;
for the heart of this people is greatly fatted, and they heard heavily with ears, and they have closed their eyes, lest sometime they see with eyes, and with ears hear, and under-stand in heart, and they be converted, and I heal them.
Ouvir e obedecer
Não basta ouvir — é preciso praticar. Quem ouve a Palavra e a pratica é como o homem sábio que edificou sobre a rocha.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Know ye, my brethren most loved, be each man swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to wrath;
Know ye, my brethren most loved, be each man swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to wrath;
for the wrath of man worketh not the rightwiseness of God.
Therefore every man that heareth these my words, and doeth them, shall be made like to a wise man, that hath builded his house on a stone.
Therefore every man that heareth these my words, and doeth them, shall be made like to a wise man, that hath builded his house on a stone.
And rain came down, and floods came, and winds blew, and rushed into that house; and it felled not down, for it was founded on a stone.
And every man that heareth these my words, and doeth them not, is like a fool, that hath builded his house on gravel [or on sand].
And rain came down, and floods came, and winds blew, and hurled against that house; and it felled down, and the falling down thereof was great.
Which answered, and said to him, It is written, Not only in bread liveth man, but in each word that cometh forth of God’s mouth, [or A man liveth not in bread alone, but in every word that cometh forth from the mouth of God].
And he said, But yea [or Rather], blessed be they, that hear the word of God, and keep it.
And he said, But yea [or Rather], blessed be they, that hear the word of God, and keep it.
that also ye have learned, and taken, and heard, and seen in me. Do ye these things, and God of peace shall be with you.
Deus ouve nossas orações
O Senhor ouve os que clamam a Ele de coração sincero. Ele inclina os ouvidos para as nossas súplicas e responde com fidelidade.
Alleluia. I loved the Lord; for the Lord shall hear the voice of my prayer.
For he bowed down his ear to me; and I shall inwardly call him in my days.
In my tribulation I inwardly called the Lord; and I cried to my God. And he heard my voice from his holy temple; and my cry in his sight entered into his ears.
The eyes of the Lord be on just [or rightwise] men; and his ears be to their prayers.
hear thou early my voice. Early I shall stand nigh to thee, and I shall see;
Give thou joy, and gladness to mine hearing; and bones made meek shall full out make joy.
Make thou early thy mercy heard to me; for I hoped in thee. Make thou known to me the way in which I shall go; for I raised my soul to thee.
And this is the trust which we have to God [or that we have in God], that whatever thing we ask after his will, he shall hear us.
And we know, that he heareth us, whatever thing we [shall] ask; we know, that we have the askings, that we ask of him.
And ye shall call me to help, and ye shall go, and shall worship me, and I shall hear you;
Cry thou to me, and I shall hear thee, and I shall tell to thee great things, and steadfast, which thou knowest not.
Lo! the hand of the Lord is not abridged, that he may not save, neither his ear is made hard, that he hear not;
Ouvir a voz de Deus
Jesus disse: 'As minhas ovelhas ouvem a minha voz.' Deus fala através da Palavra, do Espírito e das circunstâncias — cabe a nós ouvir.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they pursue me.
Truly, truly, I say to you, that he that heareth my word, and believeth in him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and he cometh not into doom, but passeth from death into life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, for the hour cometh, and now it is, when dead men shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear, shall live.
Lo! I stand at the door, and knock; if any man heareth my voice, and openeth the gate to me, I shall enter to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Lo! I stand at the door, and knock; if any man heareth my voice, and openeth the gate to me, I shall enter to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Pursue [or follow] ye your Lord God, and dread ye him; keep ye his commandments, and hear ye his voice; ye shall serve him, and ye shall cleave to him.
He that giveth to you [the] Spirit, and worketh virtues in you, whether of [the] works of the law, or of hearing of belief? [or of faith?]
Sabedoria no ouvir
Seja pronto para ouvir e tardio para falar. A sabedoria começa com a disposição de ouvir instrução e aceitar correção.
He that answereth before that he heareth, showeth himself to be a fool; and worthy of shame.
A learned man in word shall find goods; and he that hopeth in the Lord is blessed.
My son, keep the commandments of thy father; and forsake [thou] not the law of thy mother.
The way of life is to him that keepeth chastising [or discipline]; but he that forsaketh blamings, erreth.
His prayer shall be made cursed, that boweth away his ear, that he hear not the law.
It is better to be reproved of a wise man, than to be deceived by the flattering of fools;
All things be hard; a man may not declare those things by word; the eye is not filled by sight, neither the ear is filled by hearing.
If ye go contrary to me, neither will hear me, I shall increase your wounds, either vengeances, till into sevenfold for your sins;
If ye will hear, and if ye will not put on the heart, that ye give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I shall send neediness into you, and I shall curse your blessings; and I shall curse them, for ye have not put on the heart.
But when I shall speak to thee, I shall open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them, The Lord saith these things, He that heareth, hear, and he that resteth, rest; for it is an house stirring to wrath.
Lo! the days come, saith the Lord [God], and I shall send out hunger into earth; not hunger of bread, neither thirst of water, but of hearing the word of God.
And at midnight Paul and Silas worshipped, and praised God; and they that were in [the] keeping, heard them.
And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Nigh ye hither, and hear ye the word of your Lord God.
For why those things that ye have said in darknesses, shall be said in light; and that that ye have spoken in [the] ear in bedchambers, shall be preached in roofs.
But if thy brother sinneth against thee, go thou, and reprove him, betwixt thee and him alone; if he heareth thee, thou hast won thy brother.
But if thy brother sinneth against thee, go thou, and reprove him, betwixt thee and him alone; if he heareth thee, thou hast won thy brother.
And if he heareth thee not, take with thee one or twain that every word stand in the mouth of twain or three witnesses.
And if he heareth not them, say thou to the church. But if he heareth not the church, be he as a heathen and a publican to thee.
And Jethro was glad on all the goods which the Lord had done to Israel, for he [had] delivered Israel from the hand of [the] Egyptians.
For the sorrows of death com-passed me; the strands [or streams] of Belial made me afeared.
The cords of hell encompassed me; the snares of death have gone before me.
In tribulation I shall call thee, Lord, that is, I have called thee, Lord, and I shall cry to my God; and he heard from his holy temple my voice, and my cry shall come to his ears.