Bible Verses About God

He longed to fill his stomach with the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him any.

“At last he came to his senses and said, ‘Any number of my father’s hired workers have food to spare; and here I am, starving to death!

I’m going to get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you;

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers.” ’

So he got up and started back to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran and threw his arms around him and kissed him warmly.

His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son — ’

but his father said to his slaves, ‘Quick, bring out a robe, the best one, and put it on him; and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet;

and bring the calf that has been fattened up, and kill it. Let’s eat and have a celebration!

For this son of mine was dead, but now he’s alive again! He was lost, but now he has been found!’ And they began celebrating.

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came close to the house, he heard music and dancing.

So he called one of the servants and asked, ‘What’s going on?’

The servant told him, ‘Your brother has come back, and your father has slaughtered the calf that was fattened up, because he has gotten him back safe and sound.’

Then Kefa addressed them: “I now understand that God does not play favorites,

but that whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him, no matter what people he belongs to.

“As for us, we are bringing you the Good News that what God promised to the fathers,

he has fulfilled for us the children in raising up Yeshua, as indeed it is written in the second Psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’

“The God who made the universe and everything in it, and who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in man-made temples;

nor is he served by human hands, as if he lacked something; since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

“From one man he made every nation living on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish.

because what is known about God is plain to them, since God has made it plain to them.

For ever since the creation of the universe his invisible qualities — both his eternal power and his divine nature — have been clearly seen, because they can be understood from what he has made. Therefore, they have no excuse;

If some of them were unfaithful, so what? Does their faithlessness cancel God’s faithfulness?

Heaven forbid! God would be true even if everyone were a liar! — as the Tanakh says, “so that you, God, may be proved right in your words and win the verdict when you are put on trial.”

What, then, are we to say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

He who did not spare even his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all — is it possible that, having given us his Son, he would not give us everything else too?