8 Bible Verses about Help The Weak
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We entreat you also, Brothers--warn the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, give a helping hand to the weak, and be patient with every one.
Therefore 'lift again the down-dropped hands and straighten the weakened knees;
We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.
As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.
Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled. What we eat, however, will not bring us nearer to God. We lose nothing by not eating this food, and we gain nothing by eating it. But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.read more.
For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols? And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died! In this way, by sinning against your Brothers and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.
I left nothing undone to show you that, laboring as I labored, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself-- 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.
And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died!
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