'Before God' in the Bible

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Now listen to me: I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You be the people’s representative before God, and you bring the disputes to God,

Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.

David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals and with trumpets.

The anger of the Lord burned against Uzza, so He struck him down because he put out his hand to the ark; and he died there before God.

And they brought in the ark of God and placed it inside the tent which David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares the Lord.

‘Can mankind be just before God?Can a man be pure before his Maker?

“But as for me, I would seek God,And I would place my cause before God;

“In truth I know that this is so;But how can a man be in the right before God?

“Indeed, you do away with reverenceAnd hinder meditation before God.

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

“For He does not need to consider a man further,That he should go before God in judgment.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;When shall I come and appear before God?

For You have delivered my soul from death,Indeed my feet from stumbling,So that I may walk before GodIn the light of the living.

He will abide before God forever;Appoint lovingkindness and truth that they may preserve him.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;As wax melts before the fire,So let the wicked perish before God.

But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God;Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

They go from strength to strength,Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

I say, “Keep the command of the king because of the oath before God.

Now it happened that while he was performing his priestly service before God in the appointed order of his division,

Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

And fixing his gaze on him and being much alarmed, he said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

and he *said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.

So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here present before God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”

Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, “Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.”

In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men.

for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

so that no man may boast before God.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;

(Now in what I am writing to you, I assure you before God that I am not lying.)

Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, “The righteous man shall live by faith.”

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.

Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.