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Bible Verses About Rejection

Your identity and acceptance in Christ.

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The deep sting of being forsaken or overlooked by others is a painful reality, yet it does not have the power to define your ultimate worth. Even if everyone else should walk away, the Father remains your constant and faithful defender, surrounding you with His presence. You are accepted in the Beloved, a status that can never be revoked by human opinion or a change in circumstances. Find your security in His love and your future in the certain hope of His eternal acceptance.

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"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy."

"To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,"

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,"

"For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

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

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

"Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."

"All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out."

"He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:"

"For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee."

"The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."

"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."

"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up."

"For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off."

"Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee."

"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."

"Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles."

"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."

"It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,"

"And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:"

"And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus."

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:"

"To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."

"But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"

"For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia."

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