Acts 17:11

Modern English Version

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, daily examining the Scriptures, to find out if these things were so.

Cross References

Job 23:12

I have not departed 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 are awake before each watch of the night, that I may meditate on Your word.

Psalm 119:97

Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.

Proverbs 1:5

a wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,

Proverbs 8:10

Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Isaiah 34:16

Seek from the book of the Lord, and read. Not one of these shall be missing, not one shall lack its mate. For His mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.

Isaiah 8:20

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

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a wholly faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to Me?

Matthew 13:23

But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit. Some produce a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

Luke 1:2

just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

Luke 11:3

Give us each day our daily bread.

Luke 16:29

“Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets. Let them hear them.’

Luke 24:44

He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still 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 who does the truth comes to the light, that it may be revealed that his deeds have been done in God.”

John 5:39

You search the Scriptures, because you think in them you have eternal life. These are they who bear witness of Me.

Acts 10:33

So immediately I sent for you, and you have done well to come. Now therefore we are all here, present before God, to hear everything the Lord has commanded you.”

Acts 11:1

The apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

Acts 17:1

When they had traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

Acts 2:41

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized, and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

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 forever, so that we may keep all the words of this law.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

You became followers of us and the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this reason we thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which effectively works also in you who believe.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love for the truth that they might be saved.

James 1:21

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and remaining wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:2

As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow,