Bible Verses About Desire for Acceptance

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: