45 Bible Verses about Accepting Christ

But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

that if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in your heart believe that God brought Him back to life, you shall be saved.

If we confess our sins, He is so faithful and just that He forgives us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the glory of God,

For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on the ground of merit-- so that it may be impossible for any one to boast.

So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on the ground of merit--

For on the ground of obedience to Law no man living will be declared righteous before Him. Law simply brings a sure knowledge of sin.

It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--so abundant was God's grace,

and, bringing them out of the prison, he exclaimed, "O sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

"I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Christ having made us gloriously free--stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.

For "every one, without exception, who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

as righteous men, had done, but as the result of His own mercy He saved us by means of the bath of regeneration and the renewal of our natures by the Holy Spirit,

know that it is not through obedience to Law that a man can be declared free from guilt, but only through faith in Jesus Christ. We have therefore believed in Christ Jesus, for the purpose of being declared free from guilt, through faith in Christ and not through obedience to Law. For through obedience to Law no human being shall be declared free from guilt.

"Repent," replied Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, with a view to the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

Indeed we may almost say that in obedience to the Law everything is sprinkled with blood, and that apart from the outpouring of blood there is no remission of sins.

For we maintain that it is as the result of faith that a man is held to be righteous, apart from actions done in obedience to Law.

There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.

a righteousness coming from God, which depends on faith in Jesus Christ and extends to all who believe. No distinction is made;

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

And in no other is the great salvation to be found; for, in fact, there is no second name under Heaven that has been given among men through which we are to be saved."

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.

He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us, in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God.

It is not those that merely hear the Law read who are righteous in the sight of God, but it is those that obey the Law who will be pronounced righteous.

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

For just as through Adam all die, so also through Christ all will be made alive again.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus;

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus; for all of you who have been baptized into Christ, have clothed yourselves with Christ.

gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased grace through the deliverance which is found in Christ Jesus.

For of this I am confident, that He who has begun a good work within you will go on to perfect it in preparation for the day of Jesus Christ.

You will be objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name, but those who stand firm to the End will be saved.

and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free."

He it is who rescued us from so imminent a death, and will do so again; and we have a firm hope in Him that He will also rescue us in all the future,

Since then the children referred to are all alike sharers in perishable human nature, He Himself also, in the same way, took on Him a share of it, in order that through death He might render powerless him who had authority over death, that is, the Devil, and might set at liberty all those who through fear of death had been subject to lifelong slavery.

"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "He who is and was and evermore will be--the Ruler of all."

"no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.

No, indeed; the solution is found in His words to Moses, "Wherever I show mercy it shall be nothing but mercy, and wherever I show compassion it shall be simply compassion."