1 Corinthians 8:13
For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.
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- Rom 14:21 : 21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
- 1 Cor 13:5 : 5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
- 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;
- 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?
- 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.
- 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.
- 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation. 20 And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law. 21 To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law. 22 To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation. 23 And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.
- 1 Cor 10:33-11:1 : 33 Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation. 1 So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.
- 2 Tim 3:8-9 : 8 And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false. 9 But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.
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- Rom 14:19-235 verses83%
19 So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.
20 Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.
21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
22 The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.
23 But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
- Rom 14:13-164 verses83%
13 Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.
14 I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.
15 And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.
16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:
- 1 Cor 8:7-126 verses82%
7 Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.
8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
9 But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.
10 For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?
11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.
12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.
- 1 Cor 10:31-322 verses73%
31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32 Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.
- 1 Cor 10:27-293 verses73%
27 If a Gentile makes a feast for you, and you are pleased to go as a guest, take whatever is put before you, without question of right or wrong.
28 But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:
29 Right and wrong, I say, not for you, but for the other man; for the fact that I am free is not dependent on another man's sense of right or wrong.
- Rom 14:1-33 verses72%
1 Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.
2 One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.
3 Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.
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25 Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;
- 1 Cor 6:12-132 verses71%
12 I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.
13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
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29 Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?
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3 Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;
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13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
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13 And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:
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11 But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.
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16 And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
- 1 Cor 11:33-342 verses70%
33 So then, my brothers, when you come together to the holy meal of the Lord, let there be waiting for one another.
34 If any man is in need of food, let him take his meal in his house; so that you may not come together to your damage. And the rest I will put in order when I come.
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10 But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.
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23 We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.
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15 But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.
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18 For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.
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3 And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.
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10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
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11 But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.
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1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
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27 But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
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8 And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.
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6 He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.
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2 It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.
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1 I have said these things to you so that you may not be in doubt.
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23 If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,
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12 But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.
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12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh: