| Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. | Therefore, accept one another for the glory of God, just as Christ has accepted you. |
| Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. | Those who accepted his message were baptized, and on that day about three thousand people were added to their number. |
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| The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. | The one who eats everything must not look contemptuously on the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed both. |
| Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do. | Go forth, then. Eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God long ago approved what you do. |
| For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have. | As long as the goodwill is present, the gift will be acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have. |
| Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.” | Then Peter addressed them: “I now understand how true it is that God has no favorites, but that in every nation all those who fear God and do what is right are acceptable to him.” |
| Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. | However, to those who did accept him and who believed in his name he granted the power to become children of God. |
