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20 Bible Verses About Accepting Jesus

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Summary

  • The New Testament’s word for accepting Jesus is receive, defined in John 1:12 as believing in his name.
  • The Philippian jailer was told “Believe in the Lord Jesus” (Acts 16:31), and the crowd at Pentecost was told “Repent and be baptized” (Acts 2:38).
  • Romans 10:9 names what is confessed and believed: that Jesus is Lord and that God raised him from the dead.
  • Revelation 3:20 is spoken to the church in Laodicea, after a call to repent in the verse before it.
  • Colossians 2:6 treats receiving Christ as the start of a walk in him.

The Bible describes accepting Jesus as receiving him and believing in his name. That is how John 1:12 puts it; Jesus also calls people to come to him (Matthew 11:28), and Paul names confessing that Jesus is Lord (Romans 10:9). When people asked what to do, the apostles answered in a sentence: “Believe in the Lord Jesus” to a jailer at Philippi (Acts 16:31), and “Repent and be baptized” to the crowd at Pentecost (Acts 2:38). Other passages describe what…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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