What Does the Bible Say About Acceptance Of Others?

James 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

James 1:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.

15 Bible Verses about Acceptance Of Others

James 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 1:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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15 Bible Verses about Acceptance Of Others

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James 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 1:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote