'O God' in the Bible

But you say, 'Whoever tells his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is given to God,"

They answered, "The emperor's." Then he said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"

But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine that might have been of use to you is Korban," ' that is, consecrated to God,

And Jesus said, "Pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!" And they were astonished at him.

"Glory to God in heaven and on earth! Peace to the men he favors!"

She came up just at that time and gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were living in expectation of the liberation of Jerusalem.

It was in those days that he went up on the mountain to pray, and passed the whole night in prayer to God.

And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

He answered, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and obey it!"

Was no one found to return and give thanks to God except this foreigner?"

The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector.

But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven, but struck his breast, and said, 'O God, have mercy on a sinner like me!'

And he regained his sight immediately, and followed Jesus, giving thanks to God. And all the people saw it and praised God.

He said to them, "Then pay the emperor what belongs to the emperor, and pay God what belongs to God!"

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."

So at supper??he devil having by this time put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son??3 Jesus, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.

So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord,

But after further threats they let them go, as they could find no way to punish them, on account of the people, who were all giving honor to God for what had happened,

When they heard it, with one impulse they all raised their voices to God and said, "Master, it was you who made heaven, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them,

As long as it was unsold was it not yours, and after it was sold was not the money under your control? How could you think of doing such a thing? You did not lie to men but to God!"

So God's message continued to spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a great many priests accepted the faith.

So God turned his back on them and left them to worship the starry host, just as the Book of the Prophets says, " 'Was it victims and sacrifices that you offered to me, O house of Israel, Those forty years in the desert?

He was a devout man, who feared God, as did all the members of his household. He was liberal in charities to the people, and always prayed to God.

When they heard this, they made no further objection, but they gave honor to God, and said, "Then God has given even the heathen repentance and the hope of life!"

So Peter was kept in the jail, but the church was praying earnestly to God for him.

But the angel of the Lord struck him down immediately, because he did not give the honor to God; and he was eaten by worms and died.

and from there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had first been commended to God's favor for the work which they had now finished.

In my opinion, therefore, we ought not to put obstacles in the way of those of the heathen who are turning to God,

But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

Paul looked steadily at the council and said, "Brothers, I have done my duty to God with a perfectly clear conscience up to this very day."

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'

but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should.

"In a hurry or not," said Paul, "I would to God that not only you, but all who hear me today, might be what I am??xcept for these chains!"

So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies.

They are gossips, slanderers, abhorrent to God, insolent, overbearing, boastful, ingenious in evil, undutiful,

But, you say, if a falsehood of mine has brought great honor to God by bringing out his truthfulness, why am I tried for being a sinner?

Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.

For when he died, he became once for all dead to sin; the life he now lives is a life in relation to God.

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it.

On the contrary, who are you, my friend, to answer back to God? Can something a man shapes say to the man who shaped it, "Why did you make me like this?"

Brothers, my heart is full of good will toward them; my prayer to God is that they may be saved.

I can testify to their sincere devotion to God, but it is not an intelligent devotion.

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

God has not repudiated his people, which he had marked out from the first. Do you not know what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel?

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

For the Scripture says, "As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend before me, And every tongue will make its confession to God."

So each one of us must give an account of himself to God.

Just now I am starting for Jerusalem, to take help to God's people.

I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.

For this world's wisdom is foolishness to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

But you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

No, but that what the heathen sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.

Judge for yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to offer prayer to God with nothing on her head?

For anyone who speaks ecstatically is speaking not to men but to God, for no one can understand him, though he is uttering secret truths.

But if there is no one to explain it, have him keep quiet in church, and talk to himself and to God.

After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power,

You must help me by your prayers, so that many will give thanks to God on my behalf for the blessing granted me in answer to many prayers.

for to all the promises of God he supplies the "Yes" that confirms them. That is why we utter the "Amen" through him, when we give glory to God.

Yes, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, diffused among those who are being saved, and those who are perishing alike;

Such is the confidence that I have through Christ in my relations to God.

But I have this treasure in a mere ear then jar, to show that its amazing power belongs to God and not to me.

It is with this knowledge of what the fear of the Lord means that I appeal to men. My true character is perfectly plain to God, and I hope to your consciences too.

It is for Christ, therefore, that I am an envoy, seeing that God makes his appeal through me. On Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.

They did far more than I hoped, for first in obedience to God's will, they gave themselves to the Lord, and to me.

For the rendering of this service does more than supply the wants of God's people; it results in a wealth of thanksgiving to God.

The way you stand the test of this service must do honor to God, through your fidelity to what you profess as to the good news of Christ, and through the liberality of your contributions for them and for all others;

But I pray to God that you may not do wrong??ot to prove me equal to the test, but that you should do right even if I fail to stand it.

Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.

Is the Law then contrary to God's promises? By no means. For if a law had been given that could have brought life, uprightness would really have come through law.

But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist,

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, to God's people who are steadfast in Christ Jesus;

We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

At that time you had no connection with Christ, you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the agreements about God's promise; with no hope and no God in all the world.

and to kill the feud between them with his cross and in one body reconcile them both to God with it.

and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

and speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and sacred songs. Sing praise to God with all your hearts;

always give thanks for everything to God our Father, as followers of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Even if my life is to be poured out as a libation as you offer your faith in a service of sacrifice to God, I am glad to have it so, and I congratulate you upon it,

Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.

and through him to reconcile to God all things on earth or in heaven, making this peace through his blood shed on the cross.

through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.

And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.

For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God,

Leave worldly, empty phrases alone, for they lead people deeper and deeper into godlessness,

And so he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might prove a compassionate high priest as well as one faithful in his service to God, in order to forgive the people's sins.

For all who are admitted to God's Rest rest after their work, just as God did after his.

So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.

Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever.

how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?

So I said, 'See, I have come! as the Book of the Law says of me, O God, to do your will!' "