Quotes About Unity

So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lordís brothers and Cephas?

To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.

They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

They all ate the same spiritual food

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?

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

Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?

No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

as 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.

You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

For just as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.

If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.