For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus different from the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the one you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough!

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

because he not only accepted our request, but since he was very eager, he is coming to you of his own accord.

And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God's message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God's message, which is at work among you who believe.

The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful.

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.

Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.

Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.