'God' in the Bible

Demons also came out of many, loudly calling out, "You are the Son of God." But He rebuked them and forbad them to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ.

But He said to them, "I have to tell the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, because for this purpose I was sent."

Then the Scribes and Pharisees began to cavil, asking, "Who is this, uttering blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?"

Instantly he stood up in their presence, took up the mattress on which he had been lying, and went away to his home, giving glory to God.

Amazement seized them all. "Glory to God!" was the abiding feeling. Yet fear flashed through their minds and they said, "We have seen strange things to-day."

how he entered the house of God and took and ate the Presented Loaves and gave some to his followers--loaves which none but the Priests are allowed to eat?"

About that time He went out on one occasion into the hill country to pray; and He remained all night in prayer to God.

Then fixing His eyes upon His disciples, Jesus said to them, "Blessed are you poor, because the Kingdom of God is yours.

All were awe-struck, and they gave glory to God--some saying, "A Prophet, a great Prophet, has risen up among us." Others said, "God has not forgotten His People."

"I tell you that among all of women born there is not one greater than John. Yet one who is of lower rank in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.

And all the people, including the tax-gatherers, when they listened to him upheld the righteousness of God, by being baptized with John's baptism.

Shortly after this He visited town after town, and village after village, proclaiming His Message and telling the Good News of the Kingdom of God. The Twelve were with Him,

"To you," He replied, "it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but all others are taught by parables, in order that they may see and yet not see, and may hear and yet not understand.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, and said in a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of God Most High? Do not torture me, I beseech you."

"Return home," He said, "and tell there all that God has done for you." So he went and published through the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.

and sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to cure the sick.

But the immense crowd, aware of this, followed Him; and receiving them kindly He proceeded to speak to them of the Kingdom of God, and those who needed to be restored to health, He cured.

I tell you truly that there are some of those who stand here who will certainly not taste death till they have seen the Kingdom of God."

And all were awe-struck at the mighty power of God. And while every one was expressing wonder at all that He was doing, He said to his disciples,

"Leave the dead," Jesus rejoined, "to bury their own dead; but you must go and announce far and wide the coming of the Kingdom of God."

Jesus answered him, "No one who has put his hand to the plough, and then looks behind him, is fit for the Kingdom of God.

Cure the sick in that town, and tell them, "'The Kingdom of God is now at your door.'

"'The very dust of your town that hangs about us we wipe off as a protest. Only be sure of this, that the Kingdom of God is close at hand.'

"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" he replied, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole strength, and thy whole mind; and thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

But if it is by the power of God that I drive out the demons, it is evident that the Kingdom of God has come upon you.

"But alas for you Pharisees! for you pay tithes on your mint and rue and every kind of garden vegetable, and are indifferent to justice and the love of God. These are the things you ought to have attended to, while not neglecting the others.

"For this reason also the Wisdom of God has said, 'I will send Prophets and Apostles to them, of whom they will kill some and persecute others,'

"And I tell you that every man who shall have acknowledged me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.

But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

"But God said to him, "'Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations--for whom shall they be?'

"So is it with him who amasses treasure for himself, but has no riches in God."

Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds!

But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith!

And He put His hands on her, and she immediately stood upright and began to give glory to God.

And again He said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?

"There will be the weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being driven far away.

They will come from east and west, from north and south, and will sit down at the banquet in the Kingdom of God.

"I tell you that in the same way there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one repentant sinner."

"No servant can be in bondage to two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other. You cannot be bondservants both of God and of gold."

"You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.

The Law and the Prophets continued until John came: from that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been spreading, and all classes have been forcing their way into it.

One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice,

Have none been found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was coming, He answered, "The Kingdom of God does not so come that you can stealthily watch for it.

Nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' --for the Kingdom of God is within you."

but on the day that Lot left Sodom, God rained fire and brimstone from the sky and destroyed them all.

"In a certain town," He said, "there was a judge who had no fear of God and no respect for man.

"For a time he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, "'Though I have neither reverence for God nor respect for man,

And will not God avenge the wrongs of His own People who cry aloud to Him day and night, although He seems slow in taking action on their behalf?

The Pharisee, standing erect, prayed as follows by himself: "'O God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people--I am not a thief nor a cheat nor an adulterer, nor do I even resemble this tax-gatherer.

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not so much as lift his eyes to Heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God, be reconciled to me, sinner that I am.'

Jesus however called the infants to Him. "Let the little children come to me," He said; "do not hinder them; for it is to those who are childlike that the Kingdom of God belongs.

"Why do you call me good?" replied Jesus; "there is no one good but One, namely God.

Jesus saw his sorrow, and said, "With how hard a struggle do the possessors of riches ever enter the Kingdom of God!

Why, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

"Things impossible with man," He replied, "are possible with God."

No sooner were the words spoken than the man regained his sight and followed Jesus, giving glory to God; and all the people, seeing it, gave praise to God.

As they were listening to His words, He went on to teach them by a parable, because He was near to Jerusalem and they supposed that the Kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

And when He was now getting near Jerusalem, and descending the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began in their joy to praise God in loud voices for all the mighty deeds they had witnessed.

He will come and put these vine-dressers to death, and give the vineyard to others." "God forbid!" exclaimed the hearers.

"Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar--and what is God's to God."

For indeed they cannot die again; they are like angels, and are sons of God through being sons of the Resurrection.

But that the dead rise to life even Moses clearly implies in the passage about the Bush, where he calls the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

He is not a God of dead, but of living men, for to Him are all living."

So also, when you see these things happening, you may be sure that the Kingdom of God is near.

for I tell you that I certainly shall not eat one again till its full meaning has been brought out in the Kingdom of God."

for I tell you that from this time I will never drink the produce of the vine till the Kingdom of God has come."

Thereupon they cried out with one voice, "You, then, are the Son of God?" "It is as you say," He answered; "I am He."

But the other, answering, reproved him. "Do you also not fear God," he said, "when you are actually suffering the same punishment?

The Captain, seeing what had happened, gave glory to God, saying, "Beyond question this man was innocent."

who came from the Jewish town of Arimathaea and was awaiting the coming of the Kingdom of God. He had not concurred in the design or action of the Council,

"What things?" He asked. "The things about Jesus the Nazarene," they said, "who was a Prophet powerful in work and word before God and all the people;

Afterwards they were continually in attendance at the Temple, blessing God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

But all who have received Him, to them--that is, to those who trust in His name--He has given the privilege of becoming children of God;

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, that is the Lamb of God who is to take away the sin of the world!

"This I have seen, and I have become a witness that He is the Son of God."

when he saw Jesus passing by, and said, "Look! that is the Lamb of God!"

"Rabbi," cried Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are Israel's King!"

He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God is with him.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

Any man who has received His testimony has solemnly declared that God is true.

For He whom God has sent speaks God's words; for God does not give the Spirit with limitations."

God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

but I know you well, and I know that in your hearts you do not really love God.

How is it possible for you to believe, while you receive glory from one another and have no desire for the glory that comes from the only God?

Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

"What are we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things that God requires?"

"This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires--that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."

For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."