18 Bible Verses about Acceptance, Of The Gospel

This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" -- and I am the worst of them!

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown."

But these are the ones sown on good soil: They hear the word and receive it and bear fruit, one thirty times as much, one sixty, and one a hundred."

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received -- that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,

This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance. In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

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.

Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,

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!

As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

and saw the Lord saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.'

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.