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Thursday, August 14th, 2025
the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Literal Standard Version

Mark 4:23

If any has ears to hear—let him hear."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Sermon;   The Topic Concordance - Kingdom of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Parables;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mark, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Ear (2);   Hearing;   Physical ;   Teaching of Jesus;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ear;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen.”
King James Version (1611)
If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
King James Version
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
English Standard Version
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
New American Standard Bible
"If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
New Century Version
Let those with ears use them and listen!
Amplified Bible
"If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear and heed My words."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Legacy Standard Bible
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Berean Standard Bible
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Contemporary English Version
If you have ears, pay attention!
Complete Jewish Bible
Those who have ears to hear with, let them hear!"
Darby Translation
If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.
Easy-to-Read Version
You people who hear me, listen!
Geneva Bible (1587)
If any man haue eares to heare, let him heare.
George Lamsa Translation
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
Good News Translation
Listen, then, if you have ears!"
Lexham English Bible
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"
Literal Translation
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.
American Standard Version
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Bible in Basic English
If any man has ears, let him give ear.
Hebrew Names Version
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
International Standard Version
If anyone has ears to hear, let him listen!"Matthew 11:15; Mark 11:9;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Murdock Translation
If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If any man haue eares to heare, let hym heare.
English Revised Version
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
World English Bible
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Weymouth's New Testament
Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If ony man haue eeris of heryng, here he.
Update Bible Version
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
Webster's Bible Translation
If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.
New English Translation
If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!"
New King James Version
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
New Living Translation
Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand."
New Life Bible
You have ears, then listen!"
New Revised Standard
Let anyone with ears to hear listen!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If any one hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
Revised Standard Version
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yf eny man have eares to heare let him heare.
Young's Literal Translation
If any hath ears to hear -- let him hear.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so hath eares to heare, let him heare.
Mace New Testament (1729)
if any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
THE MESSAGE
"Are you listening to this? Really listening?
Simplified Cowboy Version
If you got ears, you'd best use them for listening to what I'm saying."

Contextual Overview

21And He said to them, "Does the lamp come that it may be put under the measure, or under the bed—not that it may be put on the lampstand? 22For there is not anything hid that may not be revealed, nor was anything kept hid but that it may come to light. 23If any has ears to hear—let him hear."24And He said to them, "Take heed what you hear; in what measure you measure, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear it will be added; 25for whoever may have, there will be given to him, and whoever has not, also that which he has will be taken from him." 26And He said, "Thus is the Kingdom of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth, 27and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed springs up and grows, he has not known how; 28for of itself the earth bears fruit, first a blade, afterward an ear, afterward full grain in the ear; 29and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he sends forth the sickle, because the harvest has come." 30And He said, "To what may we liken the Kingdom of God, or in what allegory may we compare it?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mark 4:9, Matthew 11:15, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:17, Revelation 2:29

Reciprocal: Proverbs 5:1 - attend Matthew 13:9 - General Mark 4:3 - Hearken Mark 7:16 - General Luke 8:18 - heed

Cross-References

Exodus 20:13
You do not murder.
Leviticus 19:18
You do not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of your people; and you have had love for your neighbor as yourself; I [am] YHWH.
Numbers 23:18
And he takes up his allegory and says: "Rise, Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, son of Zippor!
Judges 9:7
and they declare [it] to Jotham, and he goes and stands on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifts up his voice, and calls, and says to them, "Listen to me, O masters of Shechem, and God listens to you:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. What is now delivered, being very momentous and important; see Matthew 11:15.


 
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