'Accepted' in the Bible

He also said, “I assure you: No prophet is accepted in his hometown.

So he accepted the offer and started looking for a good opportunity to betray Him to them when the crowd was not present.

The one who has accepted His testimony has affirmed that God is true.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them.

One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not criticize one who does, because God has accepted him.

Therefore accept one another, just as the Messiah also accepted you, to the glory of God.

For he accepted our urging and, being very diligent, went out to you by his own choice.

For if a person comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit, which you had not received, or a different gospel, which you had not accepted, you put up with it splendidly!

For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.

But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with him the false prophet, who had performed the signs in his presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the people who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of God’s word, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with the Messiah for 1,000 years.