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.
Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ord
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that te
And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as t
But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a cr
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,
Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a la
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ J
and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth tha
But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been acco
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite o
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can
Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.
My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to lis
I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
When they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild
But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’
The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—