18 Bible Verses about Acceptance, Of The Gospel

It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,

so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.

As for him who is sown 'on good soil,' that is the man who hears the word and understands it; he bears fruit, producing now a hundredfold, now sixty, and now thirtyfold."

As for those who were sown 'on good soil,' these are the people who listen to the word and take it in and bear fruit at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

As for the seed in the good soil, that means those who hear and hold fast the word in a good and sound heart and so bear fruit stedfastly.

First and foremost, I passed on to you what I had myself received, namely, that Christ died for our sins as the scriptures had said,

It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "we toil and strive because our hope is fixed upon the living God, the Saviour of all men" ??of believers in particular.

So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they despatched Peter and John,

Now the apostles and the brothers in Judaea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

Now, brothers, I would have you know the gospel I once preached to you, the gospel you received, the gospel in which you have your footing,

You put up with it all right, when some interloper preaches a second Jesus (not the Jesus I preached), or when you are treated to a Spirit different from the Spirit you once received, and to a different gospel from what I gave you! Why not put up with me?

I have said it before and I now repeat it: whoever preaches a gospel to you that contradicts the gospel you have already received, God's curse be on him!

and you started to copy us and the Lord, welcoming the word, though it brought you heavy trouble, with a joy inspired by the holy Spirit.

Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

For if their exclusion means that the world is reconciled to God, what will their admission mean? Why, it will be life from the dead!

The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.