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If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.

because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.

But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

I have written you quite boldly on some points, as if to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me

I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus.

because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you.

It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.

The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work.

Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for you to remain as you are.

Surely he says this for us, doesn't he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.

Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.

If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?

For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.

And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.

For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

because a great door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me.