Acts 17:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Cross References

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured in my bosom the words of his mouth.

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the aged, for I keep thy precepts.

Psalm 119:148

My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate upon thy promise.

Psalm 119:97

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

Proverbs 1:5

the wise man also may hear and increase in learning, and the man of understanding acquire skill,

Proverbs 8:10

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

Proverbs 9:9

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

Isaiah 34:16

Seek and read from the book of the Lord: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

Isaiah 8:20

To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?

Matthew 13:23

As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the word and understands it; he indeed bears fruit, and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”

Luke 1:2

just as they were delivered 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

But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’

Luke 24:44

Then he said to them, “These are my words which 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 he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.

John 5:39

You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me;

Acts 10:33

So I sent to you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”

Acts 11:1

Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had 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

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Deuteronomy 29:29

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God; but the things that 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 imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with joy inspired by the Holy Spirit;

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

James 1:21

Therefore put away all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation;