15 Bible Verses about Accepting Others
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Do not mistreat a foreigner. You know how it feels to be a foreigner. After all you were foreigners in Egypt.
Show hospitality to strangers, for some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Accept the man who has a weak faith, but not to entertain doubtful thinking. For one believes that he may eat all things. Another who is weak eats only vegetables. Let the one eating not look down on the one not eating. Let the one who does not eat judge him that eats, for God has received him.read more.
Who are you to judge another man's servant? He stands or falls before his own master. Yes, he will be made to stand for God can make him stand.
Now may the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus. To this end you may glorify God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one mind and one accord (language) (united expression). Receive one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
That which the Father gives me will come to me. I will not reject him who comes to me.
How can you say to your brother: 'Let me remove the speck in your eye when you do not notice the beam in your own eye?' You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye. Then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer! You know that no murderer has everlasting life remaining in him.
In the same way, you husbands live with your wives in an understanding way. Honor the woman as the weaker vessel. For you are joint-heirs of the grace of life. May your prayers not be hindered (cut-off) (blocked).
But Jehovah said to Samuel: Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature. I have rejected him. God does not see as man sees. Man looks at the outward appearance. Jehovah looks at the heart (inner man).
He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
Greet every holy one in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
Actually Jesus did not baptize. His disciples baptized. He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee. He needed to travel through Samaria.read more.
He arrived at a city of Samaria called Sychar. It is near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there. It was about the sixth hour when Jesus arrived. Being weary from the journey he sat down by the well. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her: Please give me a drink. His disciples went away to the city to buy meat. The woman of Samaria asked: How is it that you being a Jew ask for a drink from me? I am a woman of Samaria. [The Jews did not associate with Samaritans.] (Not in early manuscripts.) Jesus answered: If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water. The woman said to him: Sir, you do not have anything with which to draw water and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well. He and his children and cattle drank from it. Jesus answered: Whoever drinks from this water will thirst again.
My brothers, keep the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Do not favor one person over the other. A man wearing a gold ring and fine clothes and a poor man in shabby clothes comes into your synagogue. You pay special attention to the one wearing the fine clothes, and say: Sit here in a good place. Then you say to the poor man: Stand there, or Sit under my footstool.read more.
Do not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts.
Jesus answered: A man traveled from Jerusalem to Jericho. He fell among robbers. They stripped him, beat him and left him half dead. A priest traveled on that road. When he saw him he passed by on the other side. When a Levite came to the place he saw the man and passed by on the other side.read more.
Then a Samaritan arrived where he was. He was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him. The next day he paid the host two shillings. He said take care of him and if you spend more I will repay you when I return. Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?
