Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
Luke 1:2just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
Luke 11:3Give us each day our daily bread.
Acts 17:1When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Treasury of Scripture
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.
more.
Proverbs 1:5
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
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.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
they received.
Acts 2:41
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 10:33
Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Acts 11:1
And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
and searched.
Psalm 1:2,3
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night…
Psalm 119:97,100,148
MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day…
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.
