1 Corinthians 4:18

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

Let all that you do be done in love.

For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

“You shall have no other gods before me.

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”

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.

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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

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

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds 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.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

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

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

This will we do, if God permits.