'O God' in the Bible

but you say that whoever tells his father or mother, 'Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is dedicated to God,'

"Caesar's," they answered. Then he said to them, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."

you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money which otherwise you would have received from me, is Korban' (that is, a thing devoted to God),

And Jesus said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God, the things that are God's." They were amazed at him.

"Glory to God in the highest, And in earth peace among men who please him"

She came up at that very hour, and gave thanks to God, and spoke of the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

"How he entered into God's house and took and ate the Presented Loaves, and gave some to his followers, loaves which none must eat but the priests?

It happened about that time that he went out into the mountain to pray. He continued all night in prayer to God.

Then he placed his hand on her, and she instantly stood upright and began to give glory to God.

"Are there none found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

"The Pharisee stood apart and thus began to pray by himself. "'O God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax gatherer;

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

Instantly he regained his sight and followed Jesus, giving glory to God; and all the people who saw it gave praise to God.

"Then give to Caesar what belongs to him," he said, "to God give what is God's."

"If any one wills to do God's will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth."

"He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."

"Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see."

and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself.

And when they heard it they all lifted up their voices in prayer to God, saying. "O Sovereign Lord, who madest heaven and earth and sea, and all that in them is,

"While it remained unsold, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was not the price at your own disposal? How could you conceive this act in your heart? You have not lied unto men, but unto God."

"So God turned from them, and gave them up to the worship of the heavenly host, as it is written in the book of the Prophets. "Did you offer unto me slain beasts as sacrifices during the forty years in the wilderness, O House of Israel?

He was a devout man and God-fearing, and so were all his household. He gave many alms to the people, and constantly prayed to God.

On hearing this they held their peace and glorified God, saying, "Forsooth then, to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance unto life."

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God was made by the church for him.

and after there had been a long discussion, Peter rose and said: "Brothers, you know how a good while ago God made choice among you, that from my lips the Gentiles were to hear the message of the gospel and believe.

"My judgment therefore, is against troubling those who turn to God from among the Gentiles;

But at midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

"This fellow," they said, "is persuading men to offer unlawful worship to God."

"And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but almost throughout all of Asia, this fellow Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, by telling them that they are no gods at all who are made with hands.

"And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. He is able to build you up, and to give you your inheritance among all those who are consecrated.

"'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

"but I proceeded to preach, first to those in Damascus, and then in Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they must repent and turn to God and do deeds worthy of repentance.

"Long or short," answered Paul, "my prayer to God is that not only you but all who are my hearers this day might become such as I am, save for these chains."

When he had so said and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God before them all, and broke it and began to eat.

So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies;

For the death that he died, he died unto sin once for all; but the life that he lives he is living unto God.

Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

"Nay, but who are you, O man, that replies to God? Shall the thing formed say unto him who formed it, "Why did you do me like this?"

Brothers, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for my countrymen, that they may be saved.

For if their casting out is the reconciliation of the world to God, what will their restoration be but life out of death?

And as in times past you were yourselves disobedient to God, but now, thanks to their disobedience, have obtained mercy;

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

For it is written, "As I live," says the Lord, "to me every knee shall bow, And to God shall every tongue confess."

So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Those who are slaving for Christ devotedly in these ways, are well pleasing to God and highly commended by man.

Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

I am thankful to God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through union with his believing wife; and the unbelieving wife, through union with her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but now they are consecrated to God.

Where each man stood when he was called, there, brothers, let him stay, close to God.

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any.

On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.

Judge of this for your own selves. It is fitting that a woman should pray to God with her head unveiled.

For he who speaks in a "tongue" speaks not to man but to God, for no one understands him, but in the Spirit he utters secret truths.

But if there is no one to interpret, let them keep silence in the church, and speak to themselves and to God.

And then the end, when he shall hand over his kingdom to God his Father, after he has abolished all rule and authority and power.

But thanks be to God, who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But thanks be to God, who in every place is leading me in the train of Christ's triumph, and is making manifest through me the knowledge of him, an odor of incense everywhere.

I am Christ's fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;

So, because I know the fear of God, I "persuade men." What I am is manifest to God, and I hope manifest also to your conscience.

For if I was "beside myself," it was to God; of if I am now "of sound mind," it is for you.

On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.

And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.

But thanks be to God who has inspired in the heart of Titus the same zeal on your behalf that I have.

You yourselves will be enriched with all good things, that you may give ungrudgingly; and your gifts, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God.

Because the ministry of this contribution not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also overflows in many a thanksgiving to God.

THANKS BE TO GOD FOR HIS UNSPEAKABLE GIFT!

And my prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that I may appear approved, but that you may do what is noble, though I should seem unable to abide the proof.

And they were giving glory to God on my account.

For it is through law I died to law, in order to live to God.

But once, when you Gentiles had no knowledge of God, you were slaves to gods which have no real being.

Would to God that those who are trying to unsettle you would even have themselves mutilated.

And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins,

Thus he reconciled us both in one body to God by his cross, on which he slew our enmity.

and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

and at all times for all things give thanks to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Do not worry about anything; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

But I give you a receipt in full for all things abound. I am amply supplied with what you sent by Epaphroditus??n odor of sweet fragrance, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

he has now in his human body reconciled to God by his death, in order that he may bring you into his presence, holy and unblemished and irreproachable.

Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

And whatever you do, whether in word of in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God our Father through him.

For others, of their own accord, tell about the welcome I had from you, and how you turned to God from your idols, to be slaved of a true and living God,

For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews??15 The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out??hey are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.

For what thanksgiving can I render again to God in your behalf, in return for all the joy which you cause me in the presence of my God?

But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

I give thanks to God whom I worship with a pure conscience as my fathers did, when I remember you unceasingly in my prayers.

Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.

I am ever mentioning you in my prayers, and giving thanks to God,

But to the Son he says. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, And the scepter of thy kingdom is the scepter of justice.

And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

For every high priest chosen from time to time from among men is appointed on behalf of men, in matters relating to God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins.

(for the Law brought nothing to perfection); and there is the bringing in of a better hope by which we draw near to God;

Hence also he is able to continue saving to the uttermost those who are ever drawing near to God through him, seeing that he is ever living to intercede for them.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

Then I said, "I am come??n the roll of the book it is written of me??o do thy will, O God."

By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice more acceptable than that of Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it he, although he is dead, still speaks.

now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking.

Wherefore since we are receiving a kingdom which is unshakable, let us give thanks, and so offer acceptable worship to God, with holy awe and fear,