'God' in the Bible

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

but I know you—that you have no love for God within you.

How can you believe? While accepting glory from one another, you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

“What can we do to perform the works of God?” they asked.

Jesus replied, “This is the work of God—that you believe in the One He has sent.”

For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me—

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.

We have come to believe and know that You are the Holy One of God!”

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You’re doing what your father does.”“We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

“If I glorify Myself,” Jesus answered, “My glory is nothing. My Father—you say about Him, ‘He is our God’—He is the One who glorifies Me.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”

“Yes, Lord,” she told Him, “I believe You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.”

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself and will glorify Him at once.

“Your heart must not be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me.

They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

Now we know that You know everything and don’t need anyone to question You. By this we believe that You came from God.”

This is eternal life:that they may know You, the only true God,and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

Thomas responded to Him, “My Lord and my God!”

But these are written so that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name.

He said this to signify by what kind of death he would glorify God. After saying this, He told him, “Follow Me!”

After He had suffered, He also presented Himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking the magnificent acts of God in our own languages.”

And it will be in the last days, says God,that I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity;then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,your young men will see visions,and your old men will dream dreams.

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: This Jesus the Nazarene was a man pointed out to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through Him, just as you yourselves know.

God raised Him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it.

Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants on his throne.

“God has resurrected this Jesus. We are all witnesses of this.

Therefore, since He has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you both see and hear.

“Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!”

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to them those who were being saved.

So he jumped up, stood, and started to walk, and he entered the temple complex with them—walking, leaping, and praising God.

All the people saw him walking and praising God,

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

But what God predicted through the mouth of all the prophets—that His Messiah would suffer—He has fulfilled in this way.

Heaven must welcome Him until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about by the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning.

Moses said:The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He will say to you.

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.

God raised up His Servant and sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead—by Him this man is standing here before you healthy.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

After threatening them further, they released them. They found no way to punish them, because the people were all giving glory to God over what had been done;

When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, “Master, You are the One who made the heaven, the earth, and the sea, and everything in them.

Wasn’t it yours while you possessed it? And after it was sold, wasn’t it at your disposal? Why is it that you planned this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God!”

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had murdered by hanging Him on a tree.

God exalted this man to His right hand as ruler and Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You may even be found fighting against God.” So they were persuaded by him.

Then the Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said, “It would not be right for us to give up preaching about God to handle financial matters.

So the preaching about God flourished, the number of the disciples in Jerusalem multiplied greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

Then they persuaded some men to say, “We heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!”

“Brothers and fathers,” he said, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

“Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land you now live in.

God spoke in this way:His descendants would be strangersin a foreign country,and they would enslaveand oppress them 400 years.

I will judge the nationthat they will serve as slaves, God said.After this, they will come outand worship Me in this place.

“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with him

“As the time was drawing near to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

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,

He assumed his brothers would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. So Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.

“This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?—this one God sent as a ruler and a redeemer by means of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

“This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers.

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices40 years in the wilderness?

No, you took up the tent of Molochand the star of your god Rephan,the images that you made to worship.So I will deport you beyond Babylon!

Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers, until the days of David.

He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

But Stephen, filled by the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw God’s glory, with Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and he said,

“Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

They all paid attention to him, from the least of them to the greatest, and they said, “This man is called the Great Power of God!”

But when they believed Philip, as he preached the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.

But Peter told him, “May your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought the gift of God could be obtained with money!

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