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 in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
• Prov 2:1–5My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
• John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
• 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• Matt 13:23What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
• 1 Pet 1:10–12Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
• 2 Pet 1:19–21We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
• Prov 9:9Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
• Prov 1:5that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
• 2 Tim 3:15–17From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Th 2:10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• John 3:21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
• 1 Th 1:6You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
• Luke 24:44He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
• Prov 8:10Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.
• Ps 1:2–3but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
• 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
• Isa 8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• Ps 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
• Ps 119:100I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
• Jas 1:21Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Ps 119:148My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.
• Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• 1 Jn 4:5–6They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
• Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
• Acts 10:33Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”
• Luke 16:29“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
• Acts 17:1Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
• Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
• Acts 11:1Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
• John 1:45–49Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

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