Trouvé 22885 Résultats pour: Re
I should like you to have your minds free from all worry. The unmarried man gives his mind to the Lord's affairs and to how he can please the Lord; (1 Corinthians 7, 32)
I am saying this only to help you, not to put a bridle on you, but so that everything is as it should be, and you are able to give your undivided attention to the Lord. (1 Corinthians 7, 35)
If someone with strong passions thinks that he is behaving badly towards his fiance'e and that things should take their due course, he should follow his desires. There is no sin in it; they should marry. (1 Corinthians 7, 36)
But if he stands firm in his resolution, without any compulsion but with full control of his own will, and decides to let her remain as his fiance'e, then he is acting well. (1 Corinthians 7, 37)
A wife is tied as long as her husband is alive. But if the husband dies, she is free to marry anybody she likes, only it must be in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 7, 39)
Now about food which has been dedicated to false gods. We are well aware that all of us have knowledge; but while knowledge puffs up, love is what builds up. (1 Corinthians 8, 1)
On the subject of eating foods dedicated to false gods, we are well aware that none of the false gods exists in reality and that there is no God other than the One. (1 Corinthians 8, 4)
Though there are so-called gods, in the heavens or on earth -- and there are plenty of gods and plenty of lords- (1 Corinthians 8, 5)
yet for us there is only one God, the Father from whom all things come and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come and through whom we exist. (1 Corinthians 8, 6)
However, not everybody has this knowledge. There are some in whose consciences false gods still play such a part that they take the food as though it had been dedicated to a god; then their conscience, being vulnerable, is defiled, (1 Corinthians 8, 7)
Only be careful that this freedom of yours does not in any way turn into an obstacle to trip those who are vulnerable. (1 Corinthians 8, 9)
That is why, if food can be the cause of a brother's downfall, I will never eat meat any more, rather than cause my brother's downfall. (1 Corinthians 8, 13)
