1 Corinthians 16:14

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1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all your things be done with charity.

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Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

Pursue love, and strive for spiritual [gifts], but especially that you may prophesy.

"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

These [things] I command you: that you love one another.

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called:

Therefore, if [there is] any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,

But now, [because] Timothy has come to us from you and has brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that {you always think kindly of us}, desiring to see us just as also we [desire to see] you,

But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

We ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers, just as it is fitting, because your faith is flourishing and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,

Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.

and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.