45 Bible Verses about Acceptance

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also hath received you, to the glory of God.

(For he saith, I have heard thee in an acceptable time, and in a day of salvation have I succoured thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

To the praise of the glory of his grace,

For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

And he said, Verily I say to you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country.

For they went forth for his sake, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

But as many as received him, to them gave he privilege to become the sons of God, to them that believe in his name:

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

Therefore we are ambitious, whether present, or absent, to be well-pleasing to him.

For do I now satisfy men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

But all have not obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

But in every nation, he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted by him.

Let every one in the calling wherein he is called, therein abide.

For if there be first a ready mind, a man is accepted, according to what he hath, not according to what he hath not.

Christ is become of no effect to you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

Therefore it is of faith, that it might be of grace, that the promise might be firm to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, (As it is written,

That if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart, that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, even because when ye received the word of God from us, ye received it, not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the word of God, who likewise effectually worketh in you that believe.

To publish the acceptable year of the Lord.

He came to his own, and his own received him not.

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

Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and let not him that eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath received him.

For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him;

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believe (now that our testimony was believed among you) in that day.

For ye sympathized with my bonds, and received with joy the spoiling of your goods, knowing that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

If I testify of myself, my testimony is not valid.

But he that doth wrong, shall receive for the wrong he hath done; and there is no respect of persons.

And coming to the other, he said likewise. And he answered, I go Sir: but went not.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear.

And the apostles who were at Jerusalem, hearing that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John:

And coming to Jerusalem, he endeavoured to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

I spoiled other churches, taking wages of them, to serve you: and when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man.