45 Bible Verses about Acceptance

Wherefore always receive one another into fellowship, to the glory of God, even as Christ also received you.

For he said: In an acceptable time have I heard thee, And in the day of salvation have I succored thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time! behold, now is the day of salvation!

and to the praise of his glorious grace which he graciously bestowed upon us in the Beloved.

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

"I tell you in solemn truth," he added, "that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

since for the sake of the Name they have started out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

But to all who receive him, to them he has given the right to become children of God, even to those who trust in his name;

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners"! And there is no greater sinner than I!

For there is no partiality with God.

And for this reason I also make it home with the Lord.

Think you that I am now trying to conciliate men or God? Or am I "seeking to please men"? If I were still seeking to please men, I should not be a slave of Christ.

And yet they did not all hearken to the good news; for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our message?

"but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

Whatever be the condition of life in which he was called, in that let him continue.

For if there be first willing mind, the gift is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.

If you are being justified by law, you are cut off from Christ; you are fallen away from grace.

"I am come in the name of my Father and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham's posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

Confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God actually raised him from the dead, and you will be saved.

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.

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

He came to his own creation, and his own folk welcomed him not.

But we are not, for we through the Spirit are eagerly waiting by faith for a hope of righteousness (a hope well founded);

He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.

For a man is proved worthy, not by his self-commendation, but when he is commended by the Lord.

As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives;

when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all believers, on that Day; (for you also believed our testimony).

For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

"If I bear testimony concerning myself, my testimony is not valid.

For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

"Then he went to the second, and said the same thing to him. "'I will not,' he answered; but afterward he changed his mind and went.

"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.

"Be fully assured, therefore, that this salvation of God is now sent unto the Gentiles. They will listen to it."

The apostle at Jerusalem, when they heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, sent to them Peter and John.

So he came to Jerusalem, and attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple.

Other churches I spoiled, and took their wages to do you service.