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Thematic Bible



just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.


Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense. It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.


does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,











If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,





All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.


Another of the disciples said to Him, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father." But Jesus said to him, "Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead."






And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of great appetite.


Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves. Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification. For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "THE REPROACHES OF THOSE WHO REPROACHED YOU FELL ON ME."












And he would answer and say to them, “The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise.”


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