But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,. If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.
It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all. For there is no partiality with God.
Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.
So if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an offense; it will not be accepted. Each man must remain in that condition in which he was called. Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and for his offering;.
For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord , you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples. And to top all that off, we judge the man stoned out of his mind who sits in the pew in front of us. Listen I say to myself mostly just because someone else has a lot of outward sin does not make them worse than me. I sin. You sin. We are all sinful people who God loves and who God is making holy. In His own time and in His own way!
While God works on your sin, you need to remember that you are saved by grace and not by having less outward sin! This would be a huge step toward living in unity in the church! Check out these Bible verses about acceptance of others! Galatians nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.
Titus He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,. What is compassion in the Bible? I believe it looks like God loving the worst of sinners. God sent His only SON to die for me, a sinner — for you, a sinner. That is compassion like nothing else I can imagine! And still, I struggle to accept others!
The struggle is real! Can you relate? If Jesus loved sinners and raised up the foolish to preach the Kingdom of God, why do we have so much Religious Intolerance?
Religious intolerance in the Bible and what to do about it is the topic for another day because it is so big Read about it at One Lost Coin.
But for today, let these Bible Verses about religious intolerance in the Bible settle in your heart. Romans Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. A nd we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. B ut do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself , that you will escape the judgment of God?
O r do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
James Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. Matthew If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him! Does that sound like a God who bombs clinics or burns buildings because sin happens in them?
What does loving-kindness mean in the Bible? Not only does the Bible talk about how God loves us unconditionally, it tells us to love others Unconditionally!
But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
But how do you love others unconditionally? Especially in the Church where we tend to see some of the worst most hypocritical behavior? For, not by their sword Possessed they the land, And their arm gave not salvation to them, But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, And the light of Thy countenance, Because Thou hadst accepted them.
To the Overseer. A Psalm. Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works. Head of fifty, and accepted of faces, And counsellor, and the wise of artificers, And the intelligent of charmers.
Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail. Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her punishment, That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion. And thou hast said unto them: This is the nation that hath not hearkened, To the voice of Jehovah its God, Nor have they accepted instruction, Perished hath stedfastness, Yea, it hath been cut off from their mouth.
Thus said Jehovah concerning this people: Well they have loved to wander, Their feet they have not restrained, And Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin. Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:.
And the days are completed, and it hath come to pass on the eighth day, and henceforth, the priests prepare on the altar your burnt-offerings and your peace-offerings, and I have accepted you -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They -- to Egypt they turn back.
For the day [of the vengeance] of the Lord is near,For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice Judah ,He has set apart [for His use] those who have accepted His invitation [the Chaldeans who rule Babylon]. She has not obeyed;she has not accepted discipline.
She has not trusted in Yahweh;she has not drawn near to her God. Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet. And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. 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. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3, people were added to them. Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaritans had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.
But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the gentiles had also accepted the word of God. Now these people were more noble and open-minded than those in Thessalonica, so they received the message [of salvation through faith in the Christ] with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
And they, when they had heard his statement, gave the glory to God. Then they said, "You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of Jews there are among those who have accepted the faith, and they are all zealous upholders of the Law.
But as for the Gentiles who have accepted the faith, we have communicated to them our decision that they are carefully to abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication. In the vicinity of that place there were estates belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed and entertained us hospitably for three days.
For if their having been cast aside has carried with it the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted again be but Life out of death? 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. That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;.
For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it. What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted power to each, you accepted the faith.
Now I'm making known to you, brothers, the gospel that I proclaimed to you, which you accepted , on which you have taken your stand,. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord , and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,. My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye. Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.
The Lord 's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous. Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor. The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
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