Acts 17:11

New King James Version

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

Cross References

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured 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 through the night watches, 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 learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,

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 still wiser; Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Isaiah 34:16

“Search from the book of the Lord, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, 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 seed of highest quality. How then have you turned before Me Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?

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 and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

Luke 1:2

just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,

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

Then 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 the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”

John 3:21

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

John 5:39

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.

Acts 10:33

So I sent to you immediately, and you have done well to come. Now therefore, we are all present before God, to hear all the things commanded you by God.”

Acts 11:1

Now the apostles and brethren who were in Judea 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 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, 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 Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 2:13

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

2 Thessalonians 2:10

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

James 1:21

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

1 Peter 2:2

as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,