1 Corinthians 10:24

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

“ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’ ”

Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”

But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.