'God' in the Bible

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful.

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

Jesus answered her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, 'Give me some water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life -- the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."

So then they said to him, "What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?"

Jesus replied, "This is the deed God requires -- to believe in the one whom he sent."

For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- he has seen the Father.)

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!"

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!"

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."

Jesus responded, "Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?"

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away.

"Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God."

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

The Jewish leaders replied, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!"

Jesus replied, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Thomas replied to him, "My Lord and my God!"

But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

(Now Jesus said this to indicate clearly by what kind of death Peter was going to glorify God.) After he said this, Jesus told Peter, "Follow me."

To the same apostles also, after his suffering, he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs -- we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!"

And in the last days it will be,' God says, 'that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

"Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know --

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.

So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.

He jumped up, stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

All the people saw him walking and praising God,

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate after he had decided to release him.

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets -- that his Christ would suffer -- he has fulfilled in this way.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey him in everything he tells you.

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, 'And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities."

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy.

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.

When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind and said, "Master of all, you who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.

Before it was sold, did it not belong to you? And when it was sold, was the money not at your disposal? How have you thought up this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God!"

But Peter and the apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than people.

The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

God exalted him to his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

And we are witnesses of these events, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him."

but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them, or you may even be found fighting against God." He convinced them,

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

The word of God continued to spread, the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

Then they secretly instigated some men to say, "We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

So he replied, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,' said God, 'and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.'

Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

"But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father's house,

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.

This same Moses they had rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge?' God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.'