Pro 2:2-6, 5:1-2, 22:17, 23:19, Eze 33:31, Mat 13:52, Jam 1:21-25 | ESV | STEP | making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding ;

Proverbs 2:2-6

2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice ^afor understanding,
4 if you seek it like ^bsilver
and search for it as for ^chidden treasures,
5 then ^dyou will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For ^ethe Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 5:1-2

Warning Against Adultery

1 ^fMy son, be attentive to my wisdom;
^gincline your ear to my understanding,
2 that you may keep ^hdiscretion,
and your lips may ⁱguard knowledge.

Proverbs 22:17

Words of the Wise

17 ^jIncline your ear, and hear ^kthe words of the wise,
^land apply your heart to my knowledge,

Proverbs 23:19

19 Hear, my son, and ^mbe wise,
and ⁿdirect your heart in the way.

Ezekiel 33:31

31 ^oAnd they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for ^pwith lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

Matthew 13:52

52 And he said to them, “Therefore every ^qscribe ^rwho has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who ^sbrings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”

James 1:21-25

21 Therefore ^tput away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with ^umeekness the implanted word, ^vwhich is able to save your souls.

22 But be ^wdoers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, ^xthe law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, ^yhe will be blessed in his doing.