'Before God' in the Bible

Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat food with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

Joshua assembled all the Israelite tribes at Shechem. He summoned Israel's elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and they appeared before God.

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably.

while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. He died right there before God.

They brought the ark of God and put it in the middle of the tent David had pitched for it. Then they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.

You displayed a sensitive spirit and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words concerning this place and its residents. You humbled yourself before me, tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,' says the Lord.

"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.

For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

"Do you think this to be just: when you say, 'My right before God.'

May he reign forever before God! Decree that your loyal love and faithfulness should protect him.

As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

But the godly are happy; they rejoice before God and are overcome with joy.

the earth shakes, yes, the heavens pour down rain before God, the God of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.

They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.

who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

Do not be rash with your mouth or hasty in your heart to bring up a matter before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth! Therefore, let your words be few.

Obey the king's command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him.

before God's decree becomes reality and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff, before the Lord's raging anger overtakes you -- before the day of the Lord's angry judgment overtakes you!

Now while Zechariah was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,

Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

"I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before God's angels.

But the one who denies me before men will be denied before God's angels.

He said to them, "What things?" "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene," they replied, "a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!

Staring at him and becoming greatly afraid, Cornelius replied, "What is it, Lord?" The angel said to him, "Your prayers and your acts of charity have gone up as a memorial before God.

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

Paul looked directly at the council and said, "Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day."

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about -- but not before God.

The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

So then, even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, or on account of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you your eagerness on our behalf before God.

Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.

I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

Such prayer for all is good and welcomed before God our Savior,

Before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, I solemnly charge you to carry out these commands without prejudice or favoritism of any kind.

I charge you before God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who made his good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand.

Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

Then the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and worshiped God

The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God's furious wrath.