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.
For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
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.
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;
And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth–el.
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.
And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
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.
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.
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.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
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.
All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
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.
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.
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
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.
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
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.
I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
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.
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
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.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
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.
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
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.
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.
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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.
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord; as Moses commanded.
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?
A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer–sheba unto this day.
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
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.
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.
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;
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.
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:
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.
And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
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,
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
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.
For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
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.
Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
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.
And Beth–arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth–el,
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.
And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.
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.
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.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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.
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
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.
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.
Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
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:
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
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.
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.
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?
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.
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
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.
And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.