Bible Verses About Struggle for Acceptance

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

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

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.

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

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

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

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

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

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

For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

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

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

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

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

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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?

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.

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

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

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.