TOPICAL BIBLE
Expediency
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Romans 14:14I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean—to that one it is unclean;Romans 14:15and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.Romans 14:16Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,Romans 14:17for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;Romans 14:18for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.Romans 14:19So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;Romans 14:20for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, are pure, but evil is to the man who is eating through stumbling.Romans 14:21Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.Romans 14:22Thou hast faith! to thyself have it before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,1 Corinthians 6:12All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I—I will not be under authority by any;1 Corinthians 8:8But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;1 Corinthians 8:9but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,1 Corinthians 8:10for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol’s temple reclining at meat—shall not his conscience—he being infirm—be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,1 Corinthians 8:11and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?1 Corinthians 8:12and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience—in regard to Christ ye sin;1 Corinthians 8:13wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh—to the age—that my brother I may not cause to stumble.1 Corinthians 9:19for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;1 Corinthians 9:20and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;1 Corinthians 9:21to those without law, as without law—(not being without law to God, but within law to Christ)—that I might gain those without law;1 Corinthians 9:22I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.1 Corinthians 9:23And this I do because of the good news, that a fellow-partaker of it I may become;1 Corinthians 10:23All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;1 Corinthians 10:24let no one seek his own—but each another’s.1 Corinthians 10:25Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,1 Corinthians 10:26for the Lord’s is the earth, and its fulness;1 Corinthians 10:27and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;1 Corinthians 10:28and if any one may say to you, ‘This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,’—do not eat, because of that one who shewed it, and of the conscience, for the Lord’s is the earth and its fulness:1 Corinthians 10:29and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why is it that my liberty is judged by another’s conscience?1 Corinthians 10:30and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?1 Corinthians 10:31Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;1 Corinthians 10:32become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;1 Corinthians 10:33as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many—that they may be saved.
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