'God' in the Bible

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?

And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them.

Simon has related how God first visited to take out of the nations a people for his name.

Wherefore I judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God;

but Paul having chosen Silas went forth, committed by the brethren to the grace of God.

And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.

She, having followed Paul and us, cried saying, These men are bondmen of the Most High God, who announce to you the way of salvation.

And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.

And having brought them into his house he laid the table for them, and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds.

for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing him, him I announce to you.

The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:

Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.

God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,

And departing thence he came to the house of a certain man, by name Justus, who worshipped God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.

And he remained there a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

but bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem; I will return to you again, if God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.

And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And Aquila and Priscilla, having heard him, took him to them and unfolded to him the way of God more exactly.

And entering into the synagogue, he spoke boldly during three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

And God wrought no ordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel of God.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give to you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

And having saluted them, he related one by one the things which God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.

And they having heard it glorified God, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law.