Acts 17:11
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.
Note Literally with great eagerness, every day examining the Writings, whether these things were so.
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.
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- more
- Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 9:9; Jeremiah 2:21; John 1:45–49
- they received
- Acts 2:41; Acts 10:33; Acts 11:1; Job 23:12; Proverbs 2:1–5; Proverbs 8:10; Matthew 13:23; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; James 1:21; 1 Peter 2:2
- and searched
- Psalm 1:2, 3; Psalm 119:97, 100, 148; Isaiah 8:20; Isaiah 34:16; Luke 16:29; Luke 24:44; John 3:21; John 5:39; 2 Timothy 3:15–17; 1 Peter 1:10–12; 2 Peter 1:19–21; 1 John 4:5, 6