19 Bible Verses about Acceptance, Of Instruction

Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.

The wise in heart will heed commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.

They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty:

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

He is in the way of life that keeps instruction: but he that refuses reproof goes astray.

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.

And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto you; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what you will.

Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done.

But he said unto her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.

The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned backward.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.