1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.
Romans 10:17
So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.
Galatians 4:14
and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.
Acts 17:11
The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.
1 Thessalonians 1:2-3
I am continually thanking God for all, always making mention of you in my prayers,
Matthew 10:13-14
"and if the house is worthy let your blessing sit upon it; but if it be unworthy, let your blessing return to you.
Matthew 10:20
"For it will not be you who is speaking, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Matthew 10:40
"Whoever receives you is receiving me, and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me.
Luke 5:1
On one occasion when he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, the crowd pressed upon him to listen to the word of God.
Luke 8:11
"This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God.
Luke 8:21
"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."
Luke 11:28
"No, rather," he answered, "blessed are those who listen to the word of God, and keep it."
John 15:3
"Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.
John 17:17
Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth.
John 17:19
And for their sakes I dedicate myself, that they also may be thoroughly dedicated in the truth.
Acts 2:41
Then those who welcomed his message were baptized, and in that day about three thousand souls were added to them;
Acts 8:14
The apostle at Jerusalem, when they heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, sent to them Peter and John.
Acts 10:33
"So I sent for you without delay, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to speak."
Acts 13:44-46
On the next Sabbath almost the entire city was gathered together to know the word of God.
Acts 13:48
When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who had been ordained to eternal life, believed.
Acts 16:14
Among them was a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, who belonged to the town of Thyatira. She, since she was a worshiper of God, listened to us, and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said.
Acts 16:30-34
and brought them out, saying, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
Acts 17:18-20
A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 17:32
But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."
Romans 1:8-9
First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world.
Romans 6:17-18
But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;
2 Corinthians 3:18
And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.
Colossians 1:6
And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God,
1 Thessalonians 1:5-10
for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes.
James 1:18
Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.
1 Peter 1:23
For you have been born anew, not of perishable, but of imperishable seed, by the living, lasting word of God.
1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord abides forever. And this is the word of the gospel which has been told to you.
1 Peter 2:2
Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;
2 Peter 1:16-21
For we were not following cunningly devised fables, when we told you of the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his Majesty.
2 Peter 3:2
I want you to recollect the words that were foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of your Lord and Saviour, given you through your apostles.
1 John 3:3
And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself, even as he is pure.
1 John 5:4-5
For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world.