Feed the Ox
1 Corinthians 9:5–6: Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working?
Liberty & Free Will
1 Corinthians 9:3–4: My defense to those who examine me is this: Do we have no right to eat and drink?
Paul An Apostle
1 Corinthians 9:1–2: Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship …
Love is About Others
1 Corinthians 8:10–13: For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? But when …
Love or Liberty
1 Corinthians 8:9: But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
A Clear Conscience
1 Corinthians 8:7–8: However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are …
Just One God
1 Corinthians 8:4-6: Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and …
Love Builds Up
1 Corinthians 8:1–2: Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
Marriage is for Life
1 Corinthians 7:36–40: But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin; let them marry. Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having …