Quotes About Belief

For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.

Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

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

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,

but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

so that your faith would not rest on menís wisdom, but on Godís power.

The natural man 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.

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.

And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.

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.

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—

the other oneís conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone elseís conscience?

You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.