Mark 4:23

The NET Bible®

If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!"

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 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

²¹ He also said to them, "A lamp isn't brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn't it to be placed on a lampstand? ²² For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, and nothing concealed except to be brought to light. ²³ If anyone has ears to hear, he had better listen!" ²⁴ And he said to them, "Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you. ²⁵ For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." ²⁶ He also said, "The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground. ²⁷ He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. ²⁸ By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. ²⁹ And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come." ³⁰ He also asked, "To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present 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 shall not murder.

Leviticus 19:18
You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord .

Numbers 23:18
Balaam uttered his oracle, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:

Judges 9:7
When Jotham heard the news, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below, "Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen 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.