Proverbs 8:32-35
8:32 “So now, children, listen to me;
blessed are those who keep my ways.
8:33 Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise,
and do not neglect it.
8:34 Blessed is the one who listens to me,
watching at my doors day by day,
waiting beside my doorway.
8:35 For the one who finds me finds life
and receives favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 9:11
9:11 For because of me your days will be many,
and years will be added to your life.
Psalms 25:12-13
25:12 The Lord shows his faithful followers
the way they should live.
25:13 They experience his favor;
their descendants inherit the land.
Psalms 81:13
81:13 If only my people would obey me!
If only Israel would keep my commands!
Isaiah 48:18
48:18 If only you had obeyed my commandments,
prosperity would have flowed to you like a river,
deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.
Isaiah 55:3
55:3 Pay attention and come to me!
Listen, so you can live!
Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you,
just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
Matthew 17:5
17:5 While he was still speaking, a
bright cloud
overshadowed
them, and a voice from the cloud said,
“This is my one dear Son,
in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!”
John 10:27-29
10:27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
10:28 I give
them eternal life, and they will never perish;
no one will snatch
them from my hand.
10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all,
and no one can snatch
them from my Father’s hand.
John 10:1
Jesus as the Good Shepherd
10:1 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
John 1:5
1:5 And the light shines on
in the darkness,
but
the darkness has not mastered it.