Quotes About Acceptance

“Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”

and said, “You visited uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ëDo not call anything impure that God has made clean.í

So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?”

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

But some joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.

When he would not be dissuaded, we fell silent and said, “The Lordís will be done.”

As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ëMy Peopleí who are not My people, and I will call her ëMy Belovedí who is not My beloved,”

But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.

The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,

To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.

Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.

Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called.

Brothers, each one should remain in the situation he was in when God called him.

If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

If I partake in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.