1 Corinthians 8:13

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

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.

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.

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

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

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 my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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 the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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

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.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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.

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.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

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.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

“You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

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

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

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.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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

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

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Abstain from every form of evil.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

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

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of animals, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

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

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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.

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

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

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

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.

The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, 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.

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

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.

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.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.