Bible Verses AboutAcceptance
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.
Most Helpful Verses
Begin with these carefully selected verses that address this topic most directly.
Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:
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But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver:
And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good.
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the Lord commanded Moses.
The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O Lord, quicken me according to thy judgment.
And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth–lehem.
And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
And the people journeyed from Kibroth–hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.
And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him.
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;
Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the Lord, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
And Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs:
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah–el:
And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
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.
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
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.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
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 these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
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.
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.
And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
And sixteen thousand persons;)
And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph’s house.
And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
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.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord, art become their God.
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
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.
If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls.
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
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?
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.
And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the Lord.
And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
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 Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.
Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
Reflection
Contemplating Acceptance
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.
May these verses about acceptance bring wisdom and guidance to your spiritual journey
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