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just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.


Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat. It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.


It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.











If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.





"Everything is lawful," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is lawful," but not everything builds others up.


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






and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.


But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up. For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."












John answered them, "The person who has two tunics must share with the person who has none, and the person who has food must do likewise."


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