God has commanded us to love everyone as equally as he loves each of us, thus we ought to maintain an attitude of acceptance toward others. Jesus asks us to have the kind of heart that we must have. From Jesus’ life, we can infer that he has the intention of welcoming everyone while he is on earth.
The Jews believed that God only loved the righteous, but Jesus showed them that God also loved sinners and that when they repented of their sins, it made heaven happy.
Because God made us in his likeness, we must have the mentality to love everyone and accept them into our lives. Discrimination of any type prevents us from referring to ourselves as God’s children.
As God’s children, we are expected to accept and love people in the same way that Jesus does. When we welcome others into our lives, we beg God to bless them as well as us.
The reasons for allowing others into our lives are explained in the following Bible scriptures. So let’s read them and reflect on them so that we might have the mental capacity to welcome others into our life.
Ephesians 4:32(KJV) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Titus 3:5(KJV) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Ezekiel 34:30(KJV) Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God.
Mark 6:4(KJV) But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
Luke 19:10(KJV) For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke 12:10(KJV) And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
Proverbs 15:1(KJV) A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Luke 6:37(KJV) Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.
1 Peter 3:7(KJV) Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Corinthians 14:26(KJV) How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
Proverbs 18:5(KJV) It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
Colossians 2:8(KJV) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Romans 15:7(KJV) Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 7:2(KJV) Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
Genesis 33:4(KJV) And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Luke 10:42(KJV) But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
John 6:37(KJV) All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
Genesis 6:8(KJV) But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
John 3:16(KJV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Revelation 22:17(KJV) And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Hebrews 8:11(KJV) And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Isaiah 43:2(KJV) When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Luke 6:42(KJV) Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
Hebrews 13:2(KJV) Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
1 Corinthians 5:11(KJV) But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Leviticus 5:1(KJV) And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
Matthew 5:42(KJV) Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Hebrews 13:3(KJV) Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Galatians 2:16(KJV) Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Romans 15:1(KJV) We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Matthew 10:40(KJV) He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
John 13:20(KJV) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
1 John 3:15(KJV) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Romans 2:11(KJV) For there is no respect of persons with God.
