Bible Verses About God

and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

`And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee,

and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings.

`And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

and the son said to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

`And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;

and having brought the fatted calf, kill it , and having eaten, we may be merry,

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,

and he said to him--Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

`And we to you do proclaim good news--that the promise made unto the fathers,

God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art--I to-day have begotten thee.

`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

neither by the hands of men is He served--needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest it to them,

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us?

He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?