Acts 17:11

American King James Version (1999)

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Cross References

Job 23:12

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.

Psalm 119:148

My eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.

Psalm 119:97

O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day.

Proverbs 1:5

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:

Proverbs 8:10

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Isaiah 34:16

Seek you out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?

Matthew 13:23

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some an hundred times, some sixty, some thirty.

Luke 1:2

Even as they delivered them to us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

Luke 11:3

Give us day by day our daily bread.

Luke 16:29

Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

Luke 24:44

And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to 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.

John 3:21

But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are worked in God.

John 5:39

Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Acts 10:33

Immediately therefore I sent to you; and you have well done that you are come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded you of God.

Acts 11:1

And the apostles and brothers that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

Acts 17:1

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

Acts 2:41

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls.

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works also in you that believe.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

And with all delusion of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

James 1:21

Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:2

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby: