when on that day He comes to be glorified in His consecrated ones and to be admired by all who believe in Him because our testimony has been confidently accepted among you.

For everything in God's creation is good, and nothing is to be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving;

This is a saying to be trusted and deserves to be accepted by all.

I tell you, this man, and not the other, went back home forgiven and accepted by God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

He in turn accepted their offer and began to seek a favorable opportunity to betray Him to them without exciting an uprising.

for I have given them the teachings that you gave me, and they have accepted them, and they have come to know in reality that I did come from you, and so they are convinced that you did send me.

So they accepted his message and were baptized, and about three thousand persons united with them on that day.

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

Now the apostles and the brothers all over Judea heard that the heathen too had accepted God's message.

Among them was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods from the town of Thyatira, and she stayed to listen to us. She was already a worshiper of God, and the Lord so moved upon her heart that she accepted the message spoken by Paul.

The man who eats anything must not look down on the man who does not do so, nor must the man who does not do so condemn the man who does, for God has fully accepted him.

Now let me remind you, brothers, of the essence of the good news which I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you now are standing,

So, just as you once accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue living in vital union with Him,

Well, if a male child undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, to keep the law of Moses from being broken, are you angry with me for making a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.

for you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord is coming like a thief in the night.

May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and graciously given us encouragement that is eternal, and a hope that is well-founded,

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

managing his own house well, with perfect seriousness keeping his children under control

A deacon too must have only one wife, and manage his children and household well.

Physical training, indeed, is of some service, but religion is of service for everything, for it contains a promise for the present life as well as the future.

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice the salary they get especially those who keep on toiling in preaching and teaching.

The Lord grant that he may find mercy at His hands on that day. And you very well know yourself how great were the services he rendered me at Ephesus.

Therefore He had to be made like His brothers, so that He could be a sympathetic High Priest, as well as a faithful one, in things relating to God, in order to atone for the people's sins.

For we have had the good news told to us as well as they, but the message heard did them no good, because they were not by faith made one with those who heeded it.

and so is obliged to offer sin-offerings, not only for the people but for himself as well.

Do you believe in one God? Very well; the demons, too, believe that, and shudder.

Dearly beloved, I am praying for you to continue to prosper in everything, and to keep well, just as your soul is prospering.

to prove that you are sons of your Father in heaven, for He makes His sun rise on bad as well as good people, and makes the rain come down on doers of right and of wrong alike.

For the heathen are greedily pursuing all such things; and surely your heavenly Father well knows that you need them all.

You hypocrite, first get the girder out of your own eye, and then you can see well enough to get the tiny speck out of your brother's eye.

And when He heard it, He said, "It is not well, but sick people that have to send for a doctor.

For she kept saying to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will get well."

And Jesus, on turning and seeing her, said, "Cheer up, my daughter! Your faith has cured you." And from that moment the woman was well.

As you go into his house, wish it well,