Study Desk

And do this because you know the time, that it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we believed.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

Now receive the one who is weak in faith, but not for quarrels about opinions.

Who are you, who passes judgment on the domestic slave belonging to someone else? To his own master he stands or falls, and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

The one who is intent on the day is intent on it for the Lord, and the one who eats eats for the Lord, because he is thankful to God, and the one who does not eat does not eat for the Lord, and he is thankful to God.

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

For Christ died and became alive again for this reason, in order that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.

But why do you judge your brother? Or also, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.

For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will praise God."

Therefore, let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather decide this: not to place a cause for stumbling or a temptation before a brother.

For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died.

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For the one who serves Christ in this way is well-pleasing to God and approved by people.

Do not destroy the work of God on account of food. All things are clean, but it is wrong for the person who eats and stumbles in the process.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for his good, for the purpose of edification.

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

For I say, Christ has become a servant of the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers,

and that the Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy, just as it is written, "Because of this, I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to your name."