Self Acceptance

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.

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

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For there is no partiality with God.

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love; — read the full passage →

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him, — read the full passage →

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self. — read the full passage →

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!” — read the full passage →

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man. — read the full passage →

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — read the full passage →

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. — read the full passage →

But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, — read the full passage →

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. — read the full passage →

“For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.”

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name. — read the full passage →

For thus says Yahweh of Armies: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.” — read the full passage →