Bible Verses About Accepting Others

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

The measure of acceptance is set impossibly high — receive others as freely as you yourself were received. No smaller standard is offered.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

Welcome the one who differs — and don't make the welcome conditional on winning the argument first.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

Turn the energy of judging others, Paul says, toward a single question: am I making the road harder for someone else?

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love.

Forbearing — bearing with people. Acceptance here is patient and ongoing, not a one-time verdict.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

Acceptance and forgiveness are tied together. To keep receiving people is to keep releasing the grievances we could hold against them.