"As for you, do not accept the title of 'Rabbi,' for one alone is your Teacher, and you are all brothers.

And do not accept the name of 'leader,' for your Leader is one alone--the Christ.

In the same way those who receive the seed on the rocky places are those who, when they have heard the Message, at once accept it joyfully,

He accepted their offer, and then looked out for an opportunity to betray Him when the people were not there.

"If I give testimony concerning myself, my testimony cannot be accepted.

But the testimony on my behalf which I accept is not from man; though I say all this in order that you may be saved.

"I do not accept glory from man,

Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"

When the Apostles in Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had accepted God's Message, they sent Peter and John to visit them.

And they, when they had heard his statement, gave the glory to God. Then they said, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of Jews there are among those who have accepted the faith, and they are all zealous upholders of the Law.

But as for the Gentiles who have accepted the faith, we have communicated to them our decision that they are carefully to abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."

I saw Jesus, and He said to me, "'Make haste and leave Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.'

in every instance and in every place we accept them with profound gratitude.

For if their having been cast aside has carried with it the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted again be but Life out of death?

For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted power to each, you accepted the faith.

If an unbeliever gives you an invitation and you are disposed to accept it, eat whatever is put before you, and ask no questions for conscience' sake.

But let me recall to you, brethren, the Good News which I brought you, which you accepted, and on which you are standing,

As a good soldier of Christ Jesus accept your share of suffering.

And no one takes this honourable office upon himself, but only accepts it when called to it by God, as Aaron was.

Through faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain did, and through this faith he obtained testimony that he was righteous, God giving the testimony by accepting his gifts; and through it, though he is dead, he still speaks.

If we accept the testimony of men, God's testimony is greater: for God's testimony consists of the things which He has testified about His Son.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in his own heart: he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, in that he has refused to accept the testimony which God has given about His Son.

For it is for Christ that they have gone forth, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.