45 Bible Verses about Acceptance

Therefore, treat one another like brothers, in God's honor, just as Christ has treated you.

For he says, "I have listened to you at a welcome time, And helped you on a day of deliverance!" Now the welcome time has come! This is the day of deliverance!

so that we might praise the splendid blessing which he has given us through his beloved Son.

For if their rejection has meant the reconciling of the world, what can the acceptance of them mean but life from the dead?

I tell you," said he, "no prophet is welcome in his own country.

For they have started out for the sake of the cause, and they are accepting nothing from the heathen.

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

It is a trustworthy saying, entitled to the fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of them,

for God shows no partiality.

So whether I am at home or away from it, it is my ambition to please him.

Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.

It is true, they have not all accepted the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what we have told?"

but welcomes the man of any nation who reveres him and does what is right.

Everyone ought to remain in the station in which he was called.

If a man is willing to give, the value of his gift is in its proportion to what he has, not to what he has not.

You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.

I have come in my Father's name, and you refuse to accept me. If someone else comes in his own name you will accept him.

That is why it all turns upon faith; it is to make it a matter of God's favor, so that the promise may hold good for all Abraham's descendants, not only those who are adherents of the Law, but also those who share the faith of Abraham. For he is the father of all of us;

For if with your lips you acknowledge the message that Jesus is Lord, and with your mind you believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too??ecause when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers.

To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor!"

He came to his home, and his own family did not welcome him.

But we, by the Spirit, through faith wait for the uprightness we hope for.

The man who will eat anything must not look down on the man who abstains from some things, and the man who abstains from them must not criticize the one who does not, for God has accepted him.

For it is not the man who approves of himself who is really approved; it is the man of whom the Lord approves.

So just as you once accepted the Christ, Jesus, as your Lord, you must live in vital union with him.

when on that Day he comes to be honored in his people, and wondered at in all who believe in him??ecause our testimony has been confirmed in you.

For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison, and you put up with it cheerfully when your property was taken from you, for you knew that you had in yourselves a greater possession that was lasting.

"If I testify to myself, my testimony is not true.

For the man who wrongs anyone will be paid back for the wrong he has done; there will be no exceptions.

Then the man went to the second son, and told him the same thing. And he answered, 'I will not!' But afterward he changed his mind and went.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

"Understand then that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen. They will listen to it!"

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

When he reached Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, for they could not believe that he was really a disciple.

I robbed other churches, letting them pay me so that I could work for you!