'Before God' in the Bible

And the earth [was] corrupted before God, and the earth was filled [with] violence.

And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

Now listen to my voice; I will advise you, and may God be with you. You be for the people before God, and you bring the issues to God.

And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem; he summoned the elders of Israel, their heads, their judges, and their officials, and they presented themselves before God.

And the people of Bethel came and sat there until evening before God, and they lifted their voices and {wept bitterly}.

Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all [their] strength, and with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

And Yahweh {was angry} with Uzza, and he struck him down because he reached his hand upon the ark. And he died there before God.

And they brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God.

because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants and you humbled yourself before me and tore your garments and wept before me, now I also have heard,' {declares} Yahweh.

"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.

"Do you think this [is] justice when you say, '{I am right} before God'?

My soul thirsts for God, for [the] living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

because you have delivered my soul from death. [Have you] not [kept] my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

As smoke is driven off, you will drive [them] off. As wax melts before fire, [the] wicked will perish before God.

But [the] righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God, and will rejoice with joy.

They go from strength to strength, [until each] appears before God in Zion.

Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be quick to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you [are] on earth; therefore, let your words be few.

And it happened that [while] he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division,

And he said to them, "What [things]?" So they said to him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people,

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

And he stared at him and became terrified [and] said, "What is [it], Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your charitable deeds have gone up for a memorial offering before God.

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your charitable deeds have been remembered before God.

Therefore I sent for you at once, and you {were kind enough to come}. So now we all are present before God to hear all the things that have been commanded to you by the Lord."

And looking intently at the Sanhedrin, Paul said, "Men [and] brothers, I have lived my life in all good conscience before God to this day."

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

(just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as [though] they are,

The faith that you have, have with respect to yourself before God. Blessed [is] the one who does not pass judgment on himself by what he approves.

so that all flesh may not boast before God.

For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

Consequently, even if I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong or because of the one who had been wronged, but in order that your diligence {on our behalf} might be revealed to you before God.

Have you been thinking all this time that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and all [these things], dear friends, [are] for your edification.

(Now [the things] which I am writing to you, behold, [I assure you] before God that I am not lying.)

This [is] good and acceptable before God our Savior,

I testify solemnly before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels that you observe these [things] without prejudice, doing nothing according to partiality.

I solemnly charge [you] before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn [us], we have confidence before God,

And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

And the smoke of the incense went up before God with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel.

And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the horns of the golden altar [that is] before God

And the twenty-four elders [who are] seated on their thrones before God fell down on their faces and worshiped God,

And the great city was [split] into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of his furious wrath.