1 Corinthians 6:12

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

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

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

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

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

“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

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.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

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.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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.’

“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

Elisha said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”

He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

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

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

For I didn’t receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

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

Abstain from every form of evil.

For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”

They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

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

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

On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.

If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

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

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.

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

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.