'Accepting' in the Bible
Gehazi, the attendant of Elisha the man of God, thought: My master has let this Aramean Naaman off lightly by not accepting from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.
They wouldn’t listen or pay attention but became obstinate, not listening or accepting discipline.
Go up to the hill country, bring lumber and rebuild My house (temple), that I may be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord [accepting it as done for My glory].
And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.
How can you believe? While accepting glory from one another, you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God.
But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is how his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from accepting the faith.
Then he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, since he had believed in God with his entire family [accepting with joy what had been made known to them about the Christ].
But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews,
I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love,
accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive.
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which it was testified of him that he was righteous (upright, in right standing with God), and God testified by accepting his gifts. And though he died, yet through [this act of] faith he still speaks.
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
since they set out for the sake of the Name, accepting nothing from pagans.
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- Accept (176 instances)
- Accepting (14 instances)
- Admit (16 instances)
- Assume (14 instances)
- Bear (470 instances)
- Consent (53 instances)
- Swallow (42 instances)
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