Mingana (Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni, vol. 1, Cambridge 1927, pp. 138-287) published this text from two Garshuni Mss (Mingana Syr. He dates the text to ca. 385-395 and believes it to have been composed in Greek. New Testament — Apocrypha — Gnostics — Church Fathers — Other Early Christian Writings is the most complete collection of Christian texts before the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. The site provides translations and commentary for these sources, including the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers, and some non-Christian. Other modules can be added, such as commentaries, dictionaries, and other translations. There is an excellent discussion on translations at Unlearn's Facebook page. Consider having a printed copy of The Scriptures as eReaders and tablets work great for pdf files, but electronic devices are subject to EMP and certainly need a power source to.
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.