Bible Verses About Access to God

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”

Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

In Him and through faith in Him we may enter God’s presence with boldness and confidence.

Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

And so to speak, Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham.

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.