100 Bible Verses About Acceptance

Bible verses about Acceptance

The path to spiritual growth often winds through the valleys of acceptance – accepting ourselves, accepting others, and accepting God's divine plan. Scripture provides a guiding light, illuminating the profound importance of embracing acceptance not as passive resignation, but as an active choice to trust in God's wisdom and grace. Through verses that encourage compassion, forgiveness, and understanding, we discover that acceptance is a powerful catalyst for healing, reconciliation, and ultimately, a deeper connection with the divine. By studying these passages, we can cultivate hearts that mirror God's unconditional love and find peace in surrendering to His perfect will.

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Numbers 31:13 (KJV)

And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

Find Acceptance: Bible Verses for Self & Others

This is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.

Numbers 36:6KJV

For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 20:18KJV

When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.

1 Samuel 10:21KJV

And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

Numbers 31:13KJV

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

Psalms 94:12KJV

And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

2 Kings 14:20KJV

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

Genesis 25:1KJV

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth–el.

Genesis 35:15KJV

He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

Leviticus 27:33KJV

And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.

Leviticus 9:13KJV

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

Job 34:23KJV

The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

Nehemiah 7:38KJV

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:

Numbers 36:11KJV

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

Ecclesiastes 11:5KJV

David said furthermore, As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

1 Samuel 26:10KJV

And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him.

2 Samuel 16:11KJV

Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Job 13:13KJV

And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.

Numbers 8:18KJV

And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

Leviticus 8:6KJV

And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

Ruth 2:21KJV

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

Isaiah 14:18KJV

And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

Numbers 18:16KJV

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

Isaiah 38:10KJV

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Samuel 5:1KJV

Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.

1 Samuel 14:43KJV

Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.

Joshua 21:24KJV

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Isaiah 4:4KJV

I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

Psalms 66:15KJV

The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

Psalms 7:8KJV

And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired.

1 Samuel 18:26KJV

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

1 Samuel 25:43KJV

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30:11KJV

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Psalms 101:7KJV

And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.

Genesis 37:13KJV

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

Proverbs 19:4KJV

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isaiah 30:25KJV

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

Exodus 6:18KJV

Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Genesis 25:15KJV

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Job 18:1KJV

Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

1 Kings 8:36KJV

Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

2 Samuel 7:5KJV

And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord; as Moses commanded.

Leviticus 9:21KJV

Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

1 Kings 14:29KJV

A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

Proverbs 12:2KJV

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Psalms 38:13KJV

Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.

1 Chronicles 15:10KJV

And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

Genesis 24:59KJV

And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer–sheba unto this day.

Genesis 26:33KJV

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

1 Kings 14:1KJV

So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:8KJV

And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

2 Samuel 24:14KJV

And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;

1 Samuel 3:2KJV

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

Ruth 2:23KJV

All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

Ecclesiastes 7:23KJV

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Job 35:5KJV

And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:

Numbers 29:5KJV

So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.

2 Samuel 6:10KJV

And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 66:21KJV

For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

Psalms 149:4KJV

And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

Judges 11:39KJV

Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Deuteronomy 14:1KJV

So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.

1 Kings 1:53KJV

For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

Genesis 43:10KJV

For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

Nehemiah 6:18KJV

Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.

Deuteronomy 5:30KJV

Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

Numbers 9:22KJV

And Beth–arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth–el,

Joshua 18:22KJV

And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

Joshua 21:8KJV

And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

1 Chronicles 4:31KJV

Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.

Leviticus 13:13KJV

He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

Isaiah 23:11KJV

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Psalms 90:4KJV

And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

1 Kings 11:42KJV

And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the Lord: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Exodus 29:25KJV

The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

Genesis 25:10KJV

For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Psalms 49:10KJV

Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

Proverbs 30:7KJV

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

Numbers 20:21KJV

In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

1 Kings 16:8KJV

All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

Numbers 18:19KJV

Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Psalms 9:20KJV

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

Psalms 78:72KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 8:23KJV

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

Job 31:36KJV

And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

1 Samuel 14:42KJV

And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Ruth 1:16KJV

And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

1 Samuel 8:15KJV

I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

2 Kings 20:3KJV

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Isaiah 24:22KJV

And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

1 Samuel 29:8KJV

And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

Genesis 24:56KJV

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

Deuteronomy 34:7KJV

Ekron, with her towns and her villages:

Joshua 15:45KJV

Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.

Psalms 20:3KJV

So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

1 Samuel 25:35KJV

And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

1 Chronicles 8:39KJV

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben–oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

Genesis 35:18KJV

And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

Genesis 19:3KJV

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Ecclesiastes 1:11KJV

And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh.

1 Kings 11:20KJV

The Bible's verses on acceptance paint a powerful picture of God's unconditional love and the importance of extending that same grace to ourselves and others. From Romans 15:7 urging us to welcome one another as Christ welcomed us, to Ephesians 4:2-3 highlighting forbearance and unity, these scriptures challenge us to move beyond judgment and embrace the inherent worth of every individual. Reflecting on these passages encourages us to cultivate empathy, dismantle prejudice, and build communities rooted in love and understanding. By embodying acceptance, we mirror Christ's compassion and create spaces where all can flourish, knowing they are valued and belong. Strive to integrate these principles into daily interactions, fostering a world that more accurately reflects God's heart for humanity.