John 9:31

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners,  but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will,  he listens to him.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Proverbs 28:9

Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law – even his prayer is detestable.

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out  to the  Lord, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time because of the crimes they have committed.

Zechariah 7:13

Just as he had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen, says the Lord of Armies.

Proverbs 21:13

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will himself also call out and not be answered.

Jeremiah 14:12

If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.’

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you.   I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask   the Father in my name,   he will give you.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will respond with wrath.  I will not show pity or spare them.  Though they call loudly in my hearing,  I will not listen to them.’

John 4:34

‘My food is to do the will of him   who sent me   and to finish his work,’   Jesus told them.

Job 42:8

Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you.  I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.’

Job 35:12

There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil people.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do his will,   he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Even if Moses and Samuel  should stand before me,  my heart would not go out to these people. Send them from my presence, and let them go.

Jeremiah 11:11

‘Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape.  They will cry out to me, but I will not hear them.

Isaiah 58:9

At that time, when you call, the  Lord will answer; when you cry out, he will say, “Here I am.” If you get rid of the yoke among you, the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,

Genesis 20:7

Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet,  and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.’

Genesis 19:29

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

Hebrews 10:7

Then I said, ‘See – it is written about me in the scroll – I have come to do your will, God.’   ,

Deuteronomy 1:45

When you returned, you wept before the Lord, but he didn’t listen to your requests or pay attention to you.

Job 35:13

Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries, and the Almighty does not take note of it –

John 9:30

‘This is an amazing thing! ’ the man told them. ‘You don’t know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.

John 9:32

Throughout history  no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.

John 11:22

Yet even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.’