'God' in the Bible

to whom also he presented himself living, after he had suffered, with many proofs; being seen by them during forty days, and speaking of the things which concern the kingdom of God;

Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the great things of God?

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elders shall dream with dreams;

Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus the Nazaraean, a man borne witness to by God to you by works of power and wonders and signs, which God wrought by him in your midst, as yourselves know

him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified and slain.

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his throne;

This Jesus has God raised up, whereof all we are witnesses.

Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear.

Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God may call.

praising God, and having favour with all the people; and the Lord added to the assembly daily those that were to be saved.

And leaping up he stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he had judged that he should be let go.

but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

whom heaven indeed must receive till the times of the restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.

Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.

Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one of you from your wickedness.

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.

But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge ye;

But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;

And they, having heard it, lifted up their voice with one accord to God, and said, Lord, thou art the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.

While it remained did it not remain to thee? and sold, was it not in thine own power? Why is it that thou hast purposed this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.

But Peter answering, and the apostles, said, God must be obeyed rather than men.

The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom ye have slain, having hanged on a cross.

Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

And we are his witnesses of these things, and the Holy Spirit also, which God has given to those that obey him.

but if it be from God, ye will not be able to put them down, lest ye be found also fighters against God.

And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples to them, said, It is not right that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables.

And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.

Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.

And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat them four hundred years;

and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,

But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider it.

This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send to be a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me him shall ye hear.

But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of the lands of the nations, whom God drove out from the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;

But being full of the Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

To whom they had all given heed, from small to great, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.

But when they believed Philip announcing the glad tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptised, both men and women.

And the apostles who were in Jerusalem, having heard that Samaria had received the word of God, sent to them Peter and John;

And Peter said to him, Thy money go with thee to destruction, because thou hast thought that the gift of God can be obtained by money.

Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not upright before God.

And straightway in the synagogues he preached Jesus that he is the Son of God.

pious, and fearing God with all his house, both giving much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,

saw plainly in a vision, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming unto him, And saying to him, Cornelius.

But he, having fixed his eyes upon him, and become full of fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before God.

And there was a voice again the second time to him, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and borne witness to by the whole nation of the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.

And he said to them, Ye know how it is unlawful for a Jew to be joined or come to one of a strange race, and to me God has shewn to call no man common or unclean.

and said, Cornelius, thy prayer has been heard, and thy alms have come in remembrance before God.

Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and thou hast well done in coming. Now therefore we are all present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.

And Peter opening his mouth said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

Jesus who was of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power; who went through all quarters doing good, and healing all that were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

This man God raised up the third day and gave him to be openly seen,

not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen before of God, us who have eaten and drunk with him after he arose from among the dead.

And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he it is who was determinately appointed of God to be judge of living and dead.

for they heard them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God;

And a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God has cleansed, do not thou make common.

If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was I to be able to forbid God?

And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life.

who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;

Peter therefore was kept in the prison; but unceasing prayer was made by the assembly to God concerning him.

And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give the glory to God, and he expired, eaten of worms.

But the word of God grew and spread itself.

And being in Salamis, they announced the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John also as their attendant.

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. He, having called Barnabas and Saul to him, desired to hear the word of God.

And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought them out of it,

And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.

Of this man's seed according to promise has God brought to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those who among you fear God, to you has the word of this salvation been sent:

but God raised him from among the dead,

that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.

For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.

But he whom God raised up did not see corruption.

And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

And on the coming sabbath almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you; but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations;

and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;

establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

And having arrived, and having brought together the assembly, they related to them all that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

And being arrived at Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, and related all that God had wrought with them.

And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, ye know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe.

And the heart-knowing God bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit as to us also,

Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?