1 Corinthians 8 - 10
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Now concerning m food offered to idols: we know that n "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" o puffs up, p but love builds up.
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q If anyone imagines that he knows something, r he does not yet know as he ought to know.
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But if anyone loves God, s he is known by God.
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Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that t "an idol has no real existence," and that u "there is no God but one."
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For although there may be v so-called gods in heaven or on earth - as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords" -
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yet w for us there is one God, the Father, x from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and y one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and z through whom we exist.
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However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, a through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and b their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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c Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.
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But take care d that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block e to the weak.
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For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
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And so by your knowledge this weak person is f destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
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Thus, sinning against your brothers and g wounding their conscience when it is weak, h you sin against Christ.
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Therefore, i if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
1 Corinthians 9
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j Am I not free? k Am I not an apostle? l Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? m Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
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If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are n the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
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This is my defense to those who would examine me.
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o Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
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p Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and q the brothers of the Lord and r Cephas?
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Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
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s Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? t Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?
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Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?
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For it is written in the Law of Moses, u "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned?
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Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written v for our sake, because w the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
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x If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?
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If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, y we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything z rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
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Do you not know that a those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?
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In the same way, the Lord commanded that b those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
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But c I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone d deprive me of my ground for boasting.
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For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For e necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
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For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with f a stewardship.
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What then is my reward? That in my preaching g I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
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For h though I am free from all, i I have made myself a servant to all, that I might j win more of them.
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k To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.
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To l those outside the law I became m as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but n under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
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o To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. p I have become all things to all people, that q by all means I might save some.
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I do it all for the sake of the gospel, r that I may share with them in its blessings.
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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives s the prize? So t run that you may obtain it.
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Every u athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we v an imperishable.
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So I do not run aimlessly; I w do not box as one x beating the air.
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But I discipline my body and y keep it under control, lest after preaching to others z I myself should be a disqualified.
1 Corinthians 10
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For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under b the cloud, and all c passed through the sea,
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and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
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and d all ate the same e spiritual food,
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and f all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
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Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for g they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as h they did.
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i Do not be idolaters j as some of them were; as it is written, k "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play."
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l We must not indulge in sexual immorality m as some of them did, and n twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
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We must not put Christ to the test, o as some of them did and p were destroyed by serpents,
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nor grumble, q as some of them did and r were destroyed by s the Destroyer.
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Now these things happened to them as an example, but t they were written down for our instruction, u on whom the end of the ages has come.
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Therefore v let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
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No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. w God is faithful, and x he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
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Therefore, my beloved, y flee from idolatry.
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I speak z as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
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a The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? b The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
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Because there is one bread, we who are many are c one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
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Consider d the people of Israel: e are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
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What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that f an idol is anything?
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No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice g they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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h You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and i the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and j the table of demons.
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k Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? l Are we stronger than he?
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m "All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up.
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n Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
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o Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
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For p "the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."
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If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, q eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
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But if someone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience -
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I do not mean r your conscience, but his. For s why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?
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If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that t for which I give thanks?
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So, whether you eat or drink, or u whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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v Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to w the church of God,
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just as x I try to please everyone in everything I do, y not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
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1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one.
1 Corinthians 8:7
However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:10
For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
Acts 15:29
That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
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Romans 15:14
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
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Romans 14:3
Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
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1 Corinthians 13:4 - 13
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
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Galatians 6:3
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
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1 Corinthians 13:8 - 9
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
1 Timothy 6:3 - 4
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness.
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Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rath...
Exodus 33:12
Moses said to the Lord, "See, you say to me, 'B...
Exodus 33:17
And the Lord said to Moses, "This very thing th...
Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, an...
Nahum 1:7
The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of tr...
2 Timothy 2:19
But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this ...
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1 Corinthians 10:19
What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Isaiah 41:24
Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.
Acts 14:15
Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
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1 Corinthians 8:6
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
Deuteronomy 4:35
To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
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2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
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1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one.
Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
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Romans 11:36
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
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Ephesians 4:5
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
John 13:13
You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.
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John 1:3
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Colossians 1:16
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things were created through him and for him.
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Romans 14:14
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.
Romans 14:22 - 23
The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.
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1 Corinthians 10:25
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1 Corinthians 10:28 - 29
But if someone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience -
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Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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1 Corinthians 10:23
All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up.
Romans 14:21
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
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Romans 14:1 - 2
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
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Romans 14:15
For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
Romans 14:20
Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.
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Zechariah 2:8
For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Matthew 18:6
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
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Matthew 25:45
Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.
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Romans 14:13
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Romans 14:21
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
2 Corinthians 6:3
We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
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1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
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Acts 14:14
But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out.
2 Corinthians 12:12
The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:7
Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.
Revelation 2:2
'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
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1 Corinthians 15:8
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appear...
Acts 9:3
Now as he went on his way, he approached Damasc...
Acts 9:17
So Ananias departed and entered the house. And ...
Acts 18:9
And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision...
Acts 22:14
And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed ...
Acts 22:18
And saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and get o...
Acts 23:11
The following night the Lord stood by him and s...
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1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
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2 Corinthians 3:2
You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.
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1 Corinthians 9:14
In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 3:8 - 9
Nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
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1 Corinthians 7:7
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
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Matthew 12:46
While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him.
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Matthew 8:14
And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.
John 1:42
He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter).
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2 Corinthians 10:4
For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
1 Timothy 1:18
This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare.
2 Timothy 2:3 - 4
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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1 Corinthians 3:6 - 8
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
Deuteronomy 20:6
And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
Proverbs 27:18
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
Song of Solomon 8:12
My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
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1 Timothy 5:18
For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain," and, "The laborer deserves his wages.
Deuteronomy 25:4
You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
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Deuteronomy 25:4
You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
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Romans 4:24
But for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord.
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2 Timothy 2:6
It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
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Romans 15:27
For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
Galatians 6:6
One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches.
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1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
Acts 20:33
I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.
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2 Corinthians 6:3
We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.
2 Corinthians 11:12
And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.
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Leviticus 6:16
And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat...
Leviticus 6:26
The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. ...
Leviticus 7:6
Every male among the priests may eat of it. It ...
Numbers 5:9 - 10
And every contribution, all the holy donations ...
Numbers 18:8 - 20
Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have g...
Deuteronomy 18:1
The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, s...
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1 Corinthians 9:4
Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
Matthew 10:10
No bag for your journey, nor two tunics nor sandals nor a staff, for the laborer deserves his food.
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Acts 18:3
And because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
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2 Corinthians 11:10
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
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Acts 4:20
For we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.
Acts 9:6
But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.
Romans 1:14
I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
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1 Corinthians 4:1
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Galatians 2:7
On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised
Philippians 1:16
The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.
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2 Corinthians 11:7
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge?
2 Corinthians 12:13
For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
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1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
1 Corinthians 10:29
I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?
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Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
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Matthew 18:15
If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives.
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Acts 16:3
Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Acts 21:23 - 26
Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow.
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Romans 2:12
For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Romans 2:14
For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
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Galatians 2:3
But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.
Galatians 3:2
Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
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1 Corinthians 7:22
For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.
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2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
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1 Corinthians 10:33
Just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
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1 Corinthians 7:16
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
Romans 11:14
In order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
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1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
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Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.
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Galatians 2:2
I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.
Galatians 5:7
You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
Philippians 2:16
Holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
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1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
2 Timothy 2:5
An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Jude 1:3
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
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James 1:12
Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
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Hebrews 12:4
In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
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1 Corinthians 14:9
So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.
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Romans 6:19
I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
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Song of Solomon 1:6
Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!
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Jeremiah 6:30
Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.
Romans 1:28
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Hebrews 6:8
But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
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Exodus 13:21
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
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Exodus 14:22
And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
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Exodus 16:15
When the people of Israel saw it, they said to ...
Exodus 16:35
The people of Israel ate the manna forty years,...
Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed y...
Nehemiah 9:15
You gave them bread from heaven for their hunge...
Nehemiah 9:20
You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and ...
Psalms 78:24
And he rained down on them manna to eat and gav...
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Psalms 78:25
Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
Psalms 105:40
They asked, and he brought quail, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.
John 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'
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Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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Numbers 14:29
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness,...
Numbers 14:37
The men who brought up a bad report of the land...
Numbers 26:64 - 65
But among these there was not one of those list...
Psalms 106:26
Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them ...
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? ...
Jude 1:5
Now I want to remind you, although you once ful...
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Numbers 11:4
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat!
Numbers 11:33 - 34
While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague.
Psalms 78:18
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
Psalms 106:14
But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert.
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1 Corinthians 10:14
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
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Exodus 32:4
And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
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Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
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Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
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1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Acts 15:20
But should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.
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Numbers 25:1
While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.
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Numbers 25:9
Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
Psalms 106:29
They provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
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Numbers 21:5
And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.
Exodus 17:2
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord ?
Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?
Psalms 78:18
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
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Numbers 21:6
Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
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Numbers 14:2
And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
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Numbers 14:29 - 37
Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me.
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Exodus 12:23
For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Psalms 78:49
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
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Romans 4:23
But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone.
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Romans 13:11
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
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Romans 11:20
That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.
2 Peter 3:17
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.
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1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Daniel 3:17
If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
2 Peter 2:9
Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.
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1 Corinthians 10:7
Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
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1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
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1 Corinthians 11:25
In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
Matthew 26:27 - 28
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you.
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1 Corinthians 11:23 - 24
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread.
Matthew 26:26
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body.
Acts 2:42
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Acts 20:7
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.
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1 Corinthians 12:12 - 13
For just as the body is one and has many member...
1 Corinthians 12:20
As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
Romans 12:5
So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and...
Ephesians 4:4
There is one body and one Spirit - just as you ...
Ephesians 4:16
From whom the whole body, joined and held toget...
Colossians 3:15
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts...
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Romans 1:3
Concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
Romans 4:1
What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?
Romans 9:5
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
2 Corinthians 11:18
Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
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Leviticus 3:3
And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the Lord, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails.
Leviticus 7:15
And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
Hebrews 13:10
We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.
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1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one.
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Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
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2 Corinthians 6:15 - 16
What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
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Deuteronomy 32:38
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!
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Isaiah 65:11
But you who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny.
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
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Ecclesiastes 6:10
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
Ezekiel 22:14
Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
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1 Corinthians 6:12
All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
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1 Corinthians 10:33
Just as I try to please everyone in everything ...
1 Corinthians 13:5
Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it ...
Philippians 2:21
For they all seek their own interests, not thos...
1 Corinthians 9:23
I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I ...
2 Corinthians 12:14
Here for the third time I am ready to come to y...
Romans 15:1
We who are strong have an obligation to bear wi...
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1 Corinthians 8:7
However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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Psalms 24:1
The earth is the Lord 's and the fullness there...
Exodus 9:29
Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out ...
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice...
Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and ...
Job 41:11
Who has first given to me, that I should repay ...
Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the...
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Psalms 24:1
The earth is the Lord 's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.
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Luke 10:8
Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you.
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1 Corinthians 8:9 - 12
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
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1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
Romans 14:16
So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.
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Romans 14:6
The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.
1 Timothy 4:3 - 4
Who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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Colossians 3:17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
1 Peter 4:11
Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies - in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
Romans 14:13
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
2 Corinthians 6:3
We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.
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1 Corinthians 11:16
If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.
Acts 20:28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
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1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
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