1 Corinthians 8:9

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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

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.

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.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

“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.

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.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

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.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

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.”

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

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.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

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,

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

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.

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

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

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

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

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

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

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

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

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

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

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

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.

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.” ’

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

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.

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

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

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?

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

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

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.

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

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

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

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel. Therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and they will bear their iniquity.

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.”

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.

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

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

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.

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.

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;

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

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

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.