Bible Verses About Access to God

And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him.

Then he cut out two tables of stone, such as had been before; and rising very early he went up into the Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, carrying with him the tables.

And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord.

And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,

Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.

And taking the censer, which he hath filled with the burning coals of the altar, and taking up with his hands the compounded perfume for incense, he shall go in within the veil into the holy place:

That when the perfumes are put upon the fire, the cloud and vapour thereof may cover the oracle, which is over the testimony, and he may not die.

He shall take also of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle with his finger seven times towards the propitiatory to the east.

And when he hath killed the buck goat for the sin of the people, he shall carry in the blood thereof within the veil, as he was commanded to do with the blood of the calf, that he may sprinkle it over against the oracle:

Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.

The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, for I have put my trust in thee.

They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.

This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.

Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.

A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.

Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee: let it sing a psalm to thy name.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm.

Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.

The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

And many people shall go, and say: Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.