45 Bible Verses about Accepting Christ
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But to all who did receive him he gave power to become Children of God--to those who believe in his Name.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that every one who believes in him may not be lost, but have Immortal Life.
For, if with your lips you acknowledge the truth of the Message that JESUS IS LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.
If we confess our sins, God may be trusted, in his righteousness, to forgive us our sins and purify us from all wickedness.
But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.
For all have sinned, and all fall short of God's glorious ideal,
The wages of Sin are Death, but the gift of God is Immortal Life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.
For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's. It is not due to obedience to Law, lest any one should boast.
Therefore, if any one is in union with Christ, he is a new being! His old life has passed away; a new life has begun!
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.
For 'no human being will be pronounced righteous before God' as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.
For in him, and through the shedding of his blood, we have found redemption in the pardon of our offenses.
Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.
It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.
not as the result of any righteous actions that we had done, but in fulfillment of his merciful purposes. He saved us by that Washing which was a New Birth to us, and by the renewing power of the Holy Spirit,
So we placed our faith in Christ Jesus, in order that we might be pronounced righteous, as the result of faith in Christ, and not of obedience to Law; for such obedience 'will not result in even one soul's being pronounced righteous.'
"Repent," answered Peter, "and be baptized every one of you in the Faith of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
He who believes in him escapes condemnation, while he who does not believe in him is already condemned, because he has not believed in the only Son of God.
Indeed, under the Law, almost everything is purified with blood; and, unless blood is shed, no forgiveness is to be obtained.
For we conclude that a man is pronounced righteous on the ground of faith, quite apart from obedience to Law.
The Divine Righteousness which is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, upon all, without distinction, who believe in him.
I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
And Salvation is in him alone; for there is no other Name in the whole world, given to men, to which we must look for our Salvation."
"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus. "He that believes in me shall live, though he die;
In truth I tell you that he who listens to my Message and believes him who sent me, has Immortal Life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already passed out of Death into Life.
Him who never knew sin God made to be Sin, on our behalf; so that we, through union with him, might become the Righteousness of God.
It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous.
And he 'himself carried our sins' in his own body to the cross, so that we might die to our sins, and live for righteousness. 'His bruising was your healing.'
For we are God's handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.
For, as through union with Adam all men die, so through union with the Christ will all be made to live.
There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus;
For you are all Sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into union with Christ clothed yourselves with Christ.
But, in his loving-kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.
For of this I am confident, that he who began a good work in you will complete it in readiness for the Day of Jesus Christ.
And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.
And from so imminent a death God delivered us, and will deliver us again; for in him we have placed our hopes of future deliverance, while you, also, help us by your prayers.
Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of 'the Children,' Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death--that is, the Devil-- and so might deliver all those who, from fear of death, had all their lives been living in slavery.
'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord, the God who is, and who was, and who shall be, the Almighty.
"No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.
For his words to Moses are-'I will take pity on whom I take pity, and be merciful to whom I am merciful.'
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