'God' in the Bible

And they were both righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

And it happened that [while] he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division,

And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God.

And the angel answered [and] said to him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to announce to you this good news.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee {named} Nazareth,

And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

This one will be great, and he will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

And the angel answered [and] said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the one to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.

For {nothing will be impossible with God}."

and my spirit has rejoiced greatly in God my Savior,

And his mouth and his tongue were opened immediately, and he began to speak, praising God.

"Blessed [be] the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited to help and {has redeemed} his people,

because of the merciful compassion of our God by which the dawn will visit to help us from on high,

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying,

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people {with whom he is pleased}!"

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them.

he took him in [his] arms and praised God and said,

And at [that] same hour she approached [and] began to give thanks to God, and to speak about him to all those who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

And the child was growing and becoming strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.

And Jesus was advancing in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and [with] people.

in the time of the high priest Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

and all flesh will see the salvation of God.'"

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham [as] father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

the [son] of Enosh, the [son] of Seth, the [son] of Adam, the [son] of God.

So the devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order this stone that it become bread!"

And Jesus answered [and] said to him, "It is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.'"

And he brought him to Jerusalem, and had him stand on the highest point of the temple and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

And Jesus answered [and] said to him, "It is said, 'You are not to put to the test the Lord your God.'"

"Ha! {Leave us alone}, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!"

And demons also were coming out of many, crying out and saying, "You are the Son of God!" And he rebuked [them] [and] did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

But he said to them, "It is necessary [for] me to proclaim the good news [of] the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this [purpose].

Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around him and hearing the word of God, he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?"

And immediately he stood up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, [and] went away to his home, glorifying God.

And amazement seized [them] all, and they began to glorify God. And they were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen wonderful things today!"

how he entered into the house of God and took the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests alone), [and] ate [it] and gave [it] to those with him?"

Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God.

And he lifted up his eyes to his disciples [and] said, "Blessed [are] the poor, because yours is the kingdom of God.

And fear seized [them] all, and they began to glorify God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has visited to help his people!"

I tell you, there is no one greater among [those] born of women than John, but the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

(And all the people, [when they] heard [this]--even the tax collectors--affirmed the righteousness of God, [because they] had been baptized [with] the baptism of John,

but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, [because they] had not been baptized by him.)

And it happened that {afterward} also he was going about from [one] town and village [to another] preaching and proclaiming the good news concerning the kingdom of God, and the twelve [were] with him,

And he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest [they are] in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

Now the parable means this: the seed is the word of God,

But he answered [and] said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers--the ones who hear the word of God and do [it].

And [when he] saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, "{What do I have to do with you}, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me!"

"Return to your home and tell all that God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.

and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

But [when] the crowds found out, they followed him, and welcoming them, he began to speak to them about the kingdom of God, and he cured those who had need of healing.

And he said to them, "But who do you say [that] I am?" And Peter answered [and] said, "The Christ of God."

But I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will never experience death until they see the kingdom of God."

And they were all astounded at the impressiveness of God.

But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead! But you go [and] proclaim the kingdom of God."

But Jesus said, "No one who puts [his] hand on the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God!"

and heal the sick in it, and say to them, "The kingdom of God has come near to you."

"Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you! Nevertheless know this: that the kingdom of God has come near!"

And he answered [and] said, "You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

But if I expel demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you!

But he said, "On the contrary, blessed [are] those who hear the word of God and follow [it]!"

"But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these [things] without neglecting those things also.

For this [reason] also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they will kill and persecute,'

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

"And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before people, the Son of Man also will acknowledge him before the angels of God,

but the one who denies me before people will be denied before the angels of God.

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

So [is] the one who stores up treasure for himself, and who is not rich toward God!"

Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; to them there is neither storeroom nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?

But if God clothes the grass in the field in this way, [although it] is [here] today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more [will he do so for] you, you of little faith?

And he placed [his] hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and glorified God.

And again he said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside!

And they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.

Now [when] one of those reclining at the table with [him] heard these [things], he said to him, "Blessed [is] {everyone who} will eat bread in the kingdom of God!"

In the [same] way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money."

And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For [what is] [considered] exalted among men [is] an abomination in the sight of God.

"The law and the prophets [were] until John; from that time [on] the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently pressed into it.

But one of them, [when he] saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.

Was no one found to turn back [and] give praise to God except this foreigner?"

Now [when he] was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with {things that can be observed},

nor will they say, 'Behold, here [it is]!' or 'There!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst."

saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people.

And he was not willing for a time, but after these [things] he said to himself, 'Even if I do not fear God or respect people,

And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them?

The Pharisee stood [and] prayed these [things] with reference to himself: 'God, I give thanks to you that I am not like other people--swindlers, unrighteous [people], adulterers, or even like this tax collector!

But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

But Jesus called them to himself, saying, "Allow the children to come to me, and do not forbid them, {for to such belongs} the kingdom of God.

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one [is] good except God alone.

And Jesus took notice of him [and] said, "How {difficult it is for} those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!

For it is easier [for] a camel to go through the eye of a needle than [for] a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.

But he said, "[What is] impossible with men is possible with God."

And he said to them, "Truly I say to you that there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the kingdom of God,

And immediately he regained [his] sight and began to follow him, glorifying God. And all the people, [when they] saw [it], gave praise to God.

Now [while] they were listening to these [things], he went on [and] told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

Now [as] he was drawing near by this time to the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen,

And they asked him, saying, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not {show partiality}, but teach the way of God in truth.

So he said to them, "Well then, give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!"

for they are not even able to die any longer, because they are like the angels and are sons of God, [because they] are sons of the resurrection.

But that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed in [the passage about] the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and [the] God of Isaac and [the] God of Jacob.