45 Bible Verses about Acceptance

Therefore always receive one another as friends, just as the Christ himself received us, to the glory of God.

For he says--'At the time for acceptance I listened to thee, And on the day of deliverance I helped thee.' Now is the time for acceptance! Now is the day of deliverance!

And so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving- kindness which he gave us in The Beloved;

For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but Life from the dead?

I tell you," he continued, "that no Prophet is acceptable in his own country.

For it was on behalf of the Name that they left their homes, and refused to take anything from the Gentiles.

But to all who did receive him he gave power to become Children of God--to those who believe in his Name.

How true the saying is, and worthy of the fullest acceptance, that 'Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners'! And there is no greater sinner than I!

Since God shows no partiality.

Therefore, whether in our home or absent from our home, our one ambition is to please him.

Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate men, or God? Am I seeking to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

Still, it may be said, every one did not give heed to the Good News. No, for Isaiah asks--'Lord, who has believed our teaching?'

But that in every nation he who reverences him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Let every one remain in that condition of life in which he was when the Call came to him.

For, where there is willingness, a man's gift is valued by its comparison with what he has, and not with what he has not.

You have severed yourselves from Christ--you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through Law; you have fallen away from love.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

That is why all is made to depend upon faith, that all may be God's gift, and in order that the fulfillment of the promise may be made certain for all Abraham's descendants-not only for those who take their stand on the Law, but also for those who take their stand on the faith of Abraham. (He is the Father of us all;

For, if with your lips you acknowledge the truth of the Message that JESUS IS LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

This, too, is a reason why we, on our part, are continually thanking God--because, in receiving the teaching that you had from us, you accepted it, not as the teaching of man, but as what it really is--the teaching of God, which is even now doing its work within you who believe in Christ.

To proclaim the accepted year of the Lord.'

He came to his own--yet his own did not receive him.

For we, by the help of the Spirit, are eagerly waiting for the fulfillment of our hope--that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.

The man who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains from it; nor must the man who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received him.

For it is not the man who commends himself that stands the test, but the man who is commended by the Lord.

Since, therefore, you have received Jesus, the Christ, as your Lord, live your lives in union with him--

When he comes to be honour ed in his People,' and to be revered in all who have learned to believe in him (for you also believed our testimony)--as he will be on 'That Day.'

For you not only sympathized with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one.

If I bear testimony to myself, my testimony is not trustworthy;

Those who do wrong will reap the wrong they have done; and there will be no partiality.

Then the father went to the second son, and said the same. 'I will not,' he answered; but afterwards he was sorry and went.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

Understand, then, that this Salvation of God was sent for the Gentiles; and they will listen."

When the Apostles at Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had welcomed God's Message, they sent Peter and John to them;

On his arrival in Jerusalem, Saul attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, as they did not believe that he was really a disciple.

I robbed other churches by taking pay from them, so that I might serve you!