58 Bible Verses about Acceptance

So then, take one another to your hearts, as Christ took us, to the glory of God.

(For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation):

To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.

For they went out for love of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

For one man is not different from another before God.

For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.

Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?

If any of it is used for food on the third day, it is a disgusting thing and will not be pleasing to the Lord.

But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.

And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil.

And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;

For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

And when you make an offering of praise to the Lord, make it in a way which is pleasing to him.

You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.

I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:

And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure is come.

He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.

For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.

And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.

For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.

All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.

As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.

For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.

For the wrongdoer will have punishment for the wrong he has done, without respect for any man's position.

And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not.

And he is to put his hand on the head of the burned offering and it will be taken for him, to take away his sin.

And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.

If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

Be certain, then, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will give hearing.

Now when the Apostles at Jerusalem had news that the people of Samaria had taken the word of God into their hearts, they sent to them Peter and John;

And when he came to Jerusalem, he made an attempt to be joined to the disciples, but they were all in fear of him, not taking him for a disciple.

This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;

And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.

I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant;