45 Bible Verses about Acceptance

Therefore, practice receiving one another into full Christian fellowship, just as Christ has so received you to Himself.

For He says: "At a welcome time I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have helped you." Right now the time of welcome is here; right now it is the day of salvation.

so that we might praise the splendid favor which He has shown us in His beloved Son.

For if the rejection of them has resulted in the reconciling of the world, what will the result be of the final reception of them but life from the dead?

He added, "I solemnly say to you, no prophet is welcome in his native neighborhood.

For they have started out for His name's sake and so accept nothing from the heathen,

But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,

It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.

for there is no partiality in God's dealings.

So whether I am at home or away from home, it is my constant ambition to please Him.

Am I now trying to win men's favor, or God's? Or, am I trying to be pleasing to men? If I were still trying to be pleasing to men, I would not be a slave of Christ at all.

However, they have not all given heed to the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has put faith in what we told?"

but in every nation the man who reveres God and practices doing right is acceptable to Him.

Everybody must remain in the station in which he was called.

If a man is ready and willing to give, his gift is acceptable in accordance with what he has, not with what he does not have.

You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of God's favor.

I have come in my Father's name, but you refuse to accept me. If anyone else should come in his own name, you would accept him.

So it is conditioned on faith, that it might be in accordance with God's unmerited favor, so that the promise might be in force for all the descendants of Abraham, not only for those who belong to the law party but also for those who belong to the faith group of Abraham. He is the father of us all,

For if with your lips you acknowledge the fact that Jesus is Lord, and in your hearts you believe that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

For another reason too, we, as far as we are concerned, are constantly giving thanks to God; that is, when you received the message you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which keeps on working in you who believe.

to announce the year of favor from the Lord."

He came into His own world, but His own people did not welcome Him.

For we, by the Spirit, are awaiting the hoped-for blessing which our right standing with God will bring us.

The man who eats anything must not look down on the man who does not do so, nor must the man who does not do so condemn the man who does, for God has fully accepted him.

For it is not the man who keeps on recommending himself who is really approved, but it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

So, just as you once accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue living in vital union with Him,

when on that day He comes to be glorified in His consecrated ones and to be admired by all who believe in Him because our testimony has been confidently accepted among you.

For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, for you knew that you had in yourselves and in heaven one that was lasting.

"If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is of no force,

For the man who wrongs another will be paid back the wrong he has done; and there are no exceptions.

Then he came to the second and said the same thing. And he answered, 'I will not.' But afterward he changed his mind and went.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.

"So you must understand that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen; and they will listen to it!"

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

Now when Saul arrived at Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples there, but they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was really a disciple.

I sponged on other churches by taking pay from them to render service to you,