'Receive' in the Bible
And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is it to you? Even bad men lend to their fellows so as to receive back an equal amount.
Then He answered the messengers, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. Blind men receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are purified, deaf persons hear, the dead are raised to life, the poor have the Good News proclaimed to them.
Those on the rock are the people who on hearing the Message receive it joyfully; but they have no root: for a time they believe, but when trial comes they fall away.
Wherever they refuse to receive you, as you leave that town shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."
But the people there would not receive Him, because He was evidently going to Jerusalem.
"And whatever town you come to and they receive you, eat what they put before you.
"But whatever town you come to and they will not receive you, go out into the broader streets and say,
And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.
But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount will be demanded.
I tell you in solemn truth that, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will certainly not enter it."
who shall not certainly receive many times as much in this life, and in the age that is coming the Life of the Ages."