Acts 17:11

The Bereans were more noble, eagerly receiving the word yet daily examining the Scriptures to verify it.

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• Isa 34:16Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
• Prov 2:1–5My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
• John 5:39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
• 1 Th 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
• Matt 13:23But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
• 1 Pet 1:10–12Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,
• 2 Pet 1:19–21We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
• Prov 9:9Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
• Prov 1:5let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
• 2 Tim 3:15–17From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Th 2:10and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
• John 3:21But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
• 1 Th 1:6And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.
• Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
• Prov 8:10Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
• Ps 1:2–3But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
• 1 Pet 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
• Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
• Ps 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
• Ps 119:100I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.
• Jas 1:21Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
• Ps 119:148My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
• Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
• 1 Jn 4:5–6They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
• Acts 2:41Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
• Acts 10:33So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”
• Luke 16:29But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’
• Acts 17:1When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
• Jer 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
• Acts 11:1The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
• John 1:45–49Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

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