12 Congregate the people,+ the men and the women and the little ones and your alien resident who is within your gates, in order that they may listen and in order that they may learn,+ as they must fear Jehovah YOUR God+ and take care to carry out all the words of this law.

11 Now the latter were more noble-minded than those in Thes·sa·lo·niʹca, for they received the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining+ the Scriptures+ daily as to whether these things were so.+

19 Know this, my beloved brothers. Every man must be swift about hearing, slow about speaking,+ slow about wrath;+