45 Bible Verses about Acceptance

Welcome one another, then, as Christ has welcomed yourselves, for the glory of God.

(He saith, I have heard you in the time of favour, and helped you on the day of salvation. Well, here is the time of favour, here is the day of salvation.)

redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,

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!

He added, "I tell you truly, no prophet is ever welcome in his native place.

they have started out for his sake and declined to take anything from pagans;

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

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,

There is no partiality about God.

Hence also I am eager to satisfy him, whether in the body or away from it;

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

But they have not all given in to the gospel of glad news? No, Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed what they heard from us?

but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him.

Everyone must remain in the condition of life where he was called.

If only one is ready to give, according to his means, it is acceptable; he is not asked to give what he has not got.

You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace,

here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him!

That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham ??of Abraham who is the father of us all

Confess with your mouth that 'Jesus is Lord,' believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved;

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

to proclaim the Lord's year of favour.

he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.

for it is by faith that 'we' wait in the Spirit for the righteousness we hope for;

The eater must not look down upon the non-eater, and the non-eater must not criticize the eater, for God has welcomed him.

for it is not the self-praiser with his own recommendations who is accepted, it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

Since you have had the messiah, even Jesus the Lord, brought to you, lead your life in him,

when he comes to be glorified in his saints and marvelled at in all believers on that day (for our testimony has found confirmation in your lives).

for you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you took the confiscation of your own belongings cheerfully, conscious that elsewhere you had higher, you had lasting, possessions.

If I testify to myself, then my evidence is not valid;

for the wrongdoer will be paid back for his wrongdoing ??there will be no favour shown.

The man went to the second and said the same to him; he replied, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and did go.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it."

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

He got to Jerusalem and tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, unable to believe he was really a disciple.

I made a levy on other churches, I took pay from them so as to minister to you;