'Before God' in the Bible

Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and God be with you. You be the one to represent the people before God and bring their cases to Him.

Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem and summoned Israel’s elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and they presented themselves before God.

So the people went to Bethel and sat there before God until evening. They wept loudly and bitterly,

David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard’—this is the Lord’s declaration.

I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair. I forced them to take an oath before God and said: “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or yourselves!

Yes, I know what you’ve said is true,but how can a person be justified before God?

Yet I prefer to speak to the Almightyand argue my case before God.

My friends scoff at meas I weep before God.

How can a person be justified before God?How can one born of woman be pure?

Sheol is naked before God,and Abaddon has no covering.

I am just like you before God;I was also pinched off from a piece of clay.

Do you think it is just when you say,“I am righteous before God”?

I thirst for God, the living God.When can I come and appear before God?

For You delivered me from death,even my feet from stumbling,to walk before God in the light of life.

May he sit enthroned before God forever;appoint faithful love and truth to guard him.

As smoke is blown away,so You blow them away.As wax melts before the fire,so the wicked are destroyed before God.

But the righteous are glad;they rejoice before God and celebrate with joy.

the earth trembled and the skies poured down rainbefore God, the God of Sinai,before God, the God of Israel.

They go from strength to strength;each appears before God in Zion.

Do not be hasty to speak, and do not be impulsive to make a speech before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.

However, it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow, for they are not reverent before God.

What should I bring before the Lordwhen I come to bow before God on high?Should I come before Him with burnt offerings,with year-old calves?

And he cried out with a loud voice, “What do You have to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God, don’t torment me!”

When his division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

“What things?” He asked them.So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a Prophet powerful in action and speech before God and all the people,

At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home three months,

You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.

Looking intently at him, he became afraid and said, “What is it, lord?”The angel told him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have come up as a memorial offering before God.

Therefore I immediately sent for you, and you did the right thing in coming. So we are all present before God, to hear everything you have been commanded by the Lord.”

Paul looked intently at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience until this day.”

“I wish before God,” replied Paul, “that whether easily or with difficulty, not only you but all who listen to me today might become as I am—except for these chains.”

For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to brag about—but not before God.

Do you have a conviction? Keep it to yourself before God. The man who does not condemn himself by what he approves is blessed.

For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.

Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we seek to persuade people. We are completely open before God, and I hope we are completely open to your consciences as well.

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing out of favoritism.

Remind them of these things, charging them before God not to fight about words; this is in no way profitable and leads to the ruin of the hearers.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and because of His appearing and His kingdom:

Dear friends, if our conscience doesn’t condemn us, we have confidence before God

The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four horns of the gold altar that is before God, I heard a voice

The 24 elders, who were seated before God on their thrones, fell facedown and worshiped God,