It also means they are not praying or reading the Word for themselves. One shouldn’t depend upon any one else to spoon feed them, but, rather to seek out the scriptures as did the Bereans, to determine if those things being taught are scriptural.
Exactly ..!!
Paul taught that we should, “... work out your own salvation with fear and trembling”.
That could only mean that we are responsible to, “study to show ourselves approved unto God”.