17 Bible Verses about Welcoming Believers
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wherefore be kindly affected to one another, as Christ was to you, that you might glorify God.
A weak convert receive as a friend without regard to any difference of opinion.
as becometh christians, and assist her in every thing her business requires: for she hath assisted many besides my self.
receive him then in the Lord with all alacrity, and let such be the objects of your esteem:
Aristarchus my companion in bonds salutes you. and so does Mark, nephew to Barnabas, for whom you have receiv'd recommendations. if he come to you, give him a kind reception.
He that receives you, receives me; and he that receives me, receives him that sent me.
whoever receives such a child in my name, receives me: and he that receives me, receives him that sent me. for he that is least among you all, he shall be greatest.
he that receives a prophet in quality of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a just man, as such, shall receive the reward of the just.
I advise you in like manner to lay out your fallacious treasure in acts of charity, that when you die, they may secure to you everlasting habitations.
yet you did not despise me for the trial which attended my person, nor treated me with scorn; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
when you come to any city, where they receive you, eat without scruple, whatever food is set before you,
and being arrived at Jerusalem, they were receiv'd by the church, by the apostles, and presbyters, to whom they related all that God had done by them.
they all act in defiance of the edicts of Cesar, pretending there is another king, one Jesus.
and being determin'd to pass into Achaia, the brethren who advis'd him to it, writ to the disciples to receive him. when he was arrived, he was, by the divine favour, very useful to those, who had receiv'd the faith.
how successful our arrival was among you, and how you renounc'd your idols to serve the living and true God,
for which reason, when I come, I shall animadvert upon his conduct, and the malicious aspersions he casts upon us: not contented with this, he will neither receive the brethren himself, nor suffer those who are better inclin'd, to do it; but drives them out of the church.
