'Receive' in the Bible

Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"

But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."

When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"

"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me."

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."

They didn't receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.

Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you, go out into its streets and say,

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.'

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."

He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

I don't receive glory from men.

I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."

They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."

Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit."

and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight."

Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins."

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' In that very hour I looked up at him.

and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor,

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, "if he comes to you, receive him"),

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.