Bible verses about "acknowledging god" | ACV

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ² And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ³ And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. ⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. ⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. ⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. ⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. ⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. ¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters Seas. And God saw that it was good. ¹¹ And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind (in which is the seed of them) upon the earth. And it was so. ¹² And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit in which is the seed of it, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. ¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. ¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth. And it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, also the stars. ¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. ²⁰ And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. ²¹ And God created the great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. ²³ And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. ²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth according to their kind. And it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²⁶ And 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that ²⁷ And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. ²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves upo ²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you it shall be for food, ³⁰ and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth in which there is life, for food--every green herb. And it was so. ³¹ And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

² LORD looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

¹ Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle separated for the good-news of God ² (which he fore-promised through his prophets in the holy scriptures) ³ concerning his Son who was made from the seed of David according to flesh. ⁴ He who was designated Son of God in power, according to a spirit of holiness, from a resurrection of the dead--Jesus Christ our Lord-- ⁵ through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name, ⁶ among which ye also are the called of Jesus Christ. ⁷ To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, to the called, to the sanctified: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ Truly, I first express thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers, ¹⁰ pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you. ¹¹ For I long to see you, so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to establish you, ¹² and that is, to be mutually encouraged among you through each other's faith, both yours and mine. ¹³ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit also among you, even as among the other Gentiles. ¹⁴ I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. ¹⁵ So the willingness is in me to preach the good-news also to you in Rome. ¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good-news of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation to every man who believes, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek. ¹⁷ For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith. ¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, ¹⁹ because what is knowable of God is apparent in them, for God made it known to them. ²⁰ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse. ²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding. ²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things. ²⁴ And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the creation against him who created it, who is blessed into the ages. Truly. ²⁶ Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature. ²⁷ And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting ²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit; ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; ³⁰ being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents; ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. ³² Who, knowing the righteousness of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also favor those who do.

³ And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. ⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. ⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. ⁶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. ⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. ⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. ⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. ¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters Seas. And God saw that it was good. ¹¹ And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit trees bearing fruit according to their kind (in which is the seed of them) upon the earth. And it was so. ¹² And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit in which is the seed of it, according to their kind. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. ¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. ¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth. And it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, also the stars. ¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. ²⁰ And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. ²¹ And God created the great sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. ²³ And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. ²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth according to their kind. And it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²⁶ And 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that ²⁷ And God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. ²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves upo ²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you it shall be for food, ³⁰ and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth in which there is life, for food--every green herb. And it was so. ³¹ And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

¹⁶ The heavens are the heavens of LORD, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

¹⁸ For thus says LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and did not create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am LORD, and there is none else.

¹ Now a certain man was in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of the band called Italian, ² a devout man, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many charities for the people, and beseeching God always. ³ He saw plainly in a vision about the ninth hour of the day, an agent of God coming in to him, and saying to him, Cornelius. ⁴ And after gazing at him, and having become afraid, he said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thy charities have come up for a memorial before God. ⁵ And now send men to Joppa and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. ⁶ This man lodges with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside the seaside. ⁷ And when the heavenly agent speaking to Cornelius departed, having called two of his housemen, and a devout soldier of those who personally served him, ⁸ and after reporting all things to them, he sent them to Joppa. ⁹ Now on the morrow, while those men were traveling and approaching the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour. ¹⁰ And he became very hungry and wanted to eat. But while those men prepared, a trance fell upon him. ¹¹ And he sees heaven opened, and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet bound at four corners, and being lowered to the earth, ¹² in which were all the four-footed things of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the birds of the sky. ¹³ And a voice came to him, After rising, Peter, kill and eat. ¹⁴ But Peter said, Not so, Lord, because I have never eaten anything profane or unclean. ¹⁵ And a voice again for a second time, What God has cleansed, thou shall not make profane. ¹⁶ And this happened thrice, and again the vessel was taken up into heaven. ¹⁷ Now while Peter was bewildered in himself whatever the vision which he saw might be, that lo, the men who were sent from Cornelius, having inquired the house of Simon, stood at the gate. ¹⁸ And after calling out they asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, lodges here. ¹⁹ And while Peter thought about the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, men seek thee. ²⁰ But after rising, go down, and go with them, doubting nothing, because I have sent them. ²¹ And having gone down to the men, Peter said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek. What is the cause for which ye are here? ²² And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and being well testified by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy agent to summon thee to his house, and to hear sayings from thee. ²³ So, having invited them in, he lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went forth with them, and certain of the brothers from Joppa went with him. ²⁴ And on the morrow they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kinsmen and close friends. ²⁵ And when it came about for Peter to enter, Cornelius, having met him, after falling down at his feet, worshiped. ²⁶ But Peter lifted him up, saying, Stand up. I am also myself a man. ²⁷ And as he conversed with him, he went in and found many who came together. ²⁸ And he said to them, Ye understand how it is unlawful for a Jewish man to fraternize or to visit with a foreign man, and yet God demonstrated to me not to call one man profane or unclean. ²⁹ And so I came without objection when summoned. I ask therefore for what matter ye summoned me. ³⁰ And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour, and the ninth hour praying in my house. And behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel. ³¹ And he says, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy charities are remembered before God. ³² Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is surnamed Peter. This man lodges in the house of Simon, a tanner, beside the sea, who, after coming, will speak to thee. ³³ Immediately therefore I sent to thee, and thou did well having come. Now therefore we are all present in the sight of God, to hear all the things commanded thee by God. ³⁴ And having opened his mouth, Peter said, In truth, I am overwhelmed that God is not partial, ³⁵ but in every nation, he who fears him, and works righteousness, is acceptable to him. ³⁶ The word that he sent forth to the sons of Israel, preaching good-news, peace by Jesus Christ (this man is Lord of all), ³⁷ ye know, the word having occurred throughout the whole of Judea beginning from Galilee after the immersion that John preached-- ³⁸ Jesus of Nazareth--how God anointed him with Holy Spirit and with power, who passed through doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him. ³⁹ And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, whom also they killed, having hung on a tree. ⁴⁰ This man God raised up the third day, and granted him to become manifest, ⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses who were previously chosen by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he arose from the dead. ⁴² And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to solemnly testify that this is the man designated by God, Judge of the living and the dead. ⁴³ To this man all the prophets testify, that every man who believes in him, to receive remission of sins through his name. ⁴⁴ While Peter still spoke these sayings, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word. ⁴⁵ And the faithful men of circumcision were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because also on the Gentiles the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out. ⁴⁶ For they heard them speaking in tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered, ⁴⁷ Can any man forbid the water for these not to be immersed, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also? ⁴⁸ And he commanded them to be immersed in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to remain some days.

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. And always be ready for a defense to every man who asks you a word about the hope in you, with mildness and fear.

³ Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you I have given it, as I spoke to Moses.

²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit; ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; ³⁰ being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents; ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.

¹¹ Thou are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy, to take the glory and the honor and the power, because thou created all things, and because by thy will they are, and were created.

⁵ Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding. ⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.