45 Bible Verses about Acceptance

Habitually therefore give one another a friendly reception, just as Christ also has received you, and thus promote the glory of God.

For He says, "At a time of welcome I have listened to you, and on a day of salvation I have succoured you." Now is the time of loving welcome! Now is the day of salvation!

to the praise of the splendour of His grace with which He has enriched us in the beloved One.

For if their having been cast aside has carried with it the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted again be but Life out of death?

"I tell you in solemn truth," He added, "that no Prophet is welcomed among his own people.

For it is for Christ that they have gone forth, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.

But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

Faithful is the saying, and deserving of universal acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; among whom I stand foremost.

For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions.

And for this reason also we make it our ambition, whether at home or in exile, to please Him perfectly.

For is it man's favour or God's that I aspire to? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still a man-pleaser, I should not be Christ's bondservant.

But, some will say, they have not all hearkened to the Good News. No, for Isaiah asks, "Lord, who has believed the Message they have heard from us?"

but that in every nation those who fear Him and live good lives are acceptable to Him.

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

For, assuming the earnest willingness, the gift is acceptable according to whatever a man has, and not according to what he has not.

Christ has become nothing to any of you who are seeking acceptance with God through the Law: you have fallen away from grace.

I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive.

All depends on faith, and for this reason--that acceptance with God might be an act of pure grace,

that if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in your heart believe that God brought Him back to life, you shall be saved.

And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as--what it really is--God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.

to proclaim the year of acceptance with the Lord."

He came to the things that were His own, and His own people gave Him no welcome.

*We* have not, for through the Spirit we wait with longing hope for an acceptance with God which is to come through faith.

Let not him who eats certain food look down upon him who abstains from it, nor him who abstains from it find fault with him who eats it; for God has received both of them.

For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;

when He comes on that day to be glorified in His people and to be wondered at among all who have believed, including you--because you believed the testimony which we brought for your acceptance.

For you not only showed sympathy with those who were imprisoned, but you even submitted with joy when your property was taken from you, being well aware that you have in your own selves a more valuable possession and one which will remain.

"If I give testimony concerning myself, my testimony cannot be accepted.

The man who perpetrates a wrong will find the wrong repaid to him; and with God there are no merely earthly distinctions.

He came to the second and spoke in the same manner. His answer was, "'I will go, Sir.' "But he did not go.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

"Be fully assured, therefore, that this salvation--God's salvation--has now been sent to the Gentiles, and that they, at any rate, will give heed."

When the Apostles in Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had accepted God's Message, they sent Peter and John to visit them.

So he came to Jerusalem and made several attempts to associate with the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, being in doubt as to whether he himself was a disciple.

Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order to do you service.