'Receive' in the Bible

and yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and Samaria and to the remotest parts of the earth."

"Repent," replied Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, with a view to the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

So he looked and waited, expecting to receive something from them.

Heaven must receive Him until those times of which God has spoken from the earliest ages through the lips of His holy Prophets--the times of the reconstitution of all things.

So they stoned Stephen, while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

They, when they came down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit:

"Give me too," he said, "that power, so that every one on whom I place my hands will receive the Holy Spirit."

To Him all the Prophets bear witness, and testify that through His name all who believe in Him receive the forgiveness of their sins."

"Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you first believed?" he asked them. "No," they replied, "we did not even hear that there is a Holy Spirit."

In all things I have set you an example, showing you that, by working as I do, you ought to help the weak, and to bear in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, "'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

that they may turn from darkness to light and from the obedience to Satan to God, in order to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified through faith in Me.'