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Romans 14:11It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”Romans 14:12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.Romans 14:13Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.Romans 14:14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.Romans 14:15If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.Romans 14:16Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.Romans 14:17For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.Romans 14:18For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.Romans 14:19So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.Romans 14:20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.Romans 14:21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.Romans 14:22Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.Romans 15:1We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.Romans 15:2Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.Romans 15:3For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”Romans 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.Romans 15:5Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,1 Corinthians 4:12We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;1 Corinthians 6:12“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.1 Corinthians 8:10For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?1 Corinthians 8:11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.1 Corinthians 8:12By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.1 Corinthians 8:13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.1 Corinthians 9:12If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.1 Corinthians 9:15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.1 Corinthians 9:18What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not use up my rights in preaching it.1 Corinthians 9:19Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.1 Corinthians 9:23I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.1 Corinthians 9:25Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.1 Corinthians 9:26Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.1 Corinthians 9:27No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.1 Corinthians 10:23“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.1 Corinthians 10:24No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.1 Corinthians 10:33as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.2 Corinthians 6:3We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.Galatians 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.Galatians 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.Galatians 5:17For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.Galatians 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.Galatians 6:14But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.Philippians 2:4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.Philippians 3:7But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.Philippians 3:8More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ Philippians 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.2 Timothy 2:4A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,Hebrews 11:25He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.Hebrews 13:13Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.1 Peter 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.1 Peter 2:12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.1 Peter 2:13Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,1 Peter 2:14or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.1 Peter 2:15For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.1 Peter 2:16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.1 Peter 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.1 Peter 4:2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.3 John 1:7For they went out on behalf of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.Revelation 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.