1 Corinthians 9:19

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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

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.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

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

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

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

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

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

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

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

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

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.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over 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.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

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.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

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,

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

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

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

As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

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

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

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,

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

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

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

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

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

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

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

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

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

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.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

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.

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.

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

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

So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

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

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

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

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

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

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.

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.

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

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

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

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