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 34:16Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
• Prov 2:1–5My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
• John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
• 1 Th 2:13For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
• Matt 13:23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
• 1 Pet 1:10–12Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
• 2 Pet 1:19–21We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
• Prov 9:9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
• Prov 1:5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
• 2 Tim 3:15–17And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Th 2:10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• John 3:21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
• 1 Th 1:6And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
• Luke 24:44And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
• Prov 8:10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
• Ps 1:2–3But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
• 1 Pet 2:2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
• Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
• Ps 119:97O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
• Ps 119:100I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
• Jas 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Ps 119:148Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
• Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• 1 Jn 4:5–6They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
• Acts 2:41Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
• Acts 10:33Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
• Luke 16:29Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
• Acts 17:1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
• Acts 11:1And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
• John 1:45–49Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.

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