it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

Or has not the potter rightful power over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for more honourable and another for less honourable uses?

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

I know and am convinced [as one] in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean [ritually defiled, and unholy] in itself; but [nonetheless] it is unclean to anyone who thinks it is unclean.

If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died.

But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: