Acts 17:11

New English Translation

These Jews were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.

Cross References

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.

Psalm 119:100

I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.

Psalm 119:148

My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.

Psalm 119:97

O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it.

Proverbs 1:5

(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)

Proverbs 8:10

Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

Isaiah 34:16

Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! Not one of these creatures will be missing, none will lack a mate. For the Lord has issued the decree, and his own spirit gathers them.

Isaiah 8:20

Then you must recall the Lord’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?

Matthew 13:23

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”

Luke 1:2

like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

Luke 11:3

Give us each day our daily bread,

Luke 16:29

But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.’

Luke 24:44

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”

John 3:21

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

John 5:39

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

Acts 10:33

Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.”

Acts 11:1

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

Acts 17:1

After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

Acts 2:41

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

Deuteronomy 29:29

Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

James 1:21

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:2

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,