Quotes About Choices

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lordís mercy is trustworthy.

Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.

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—

If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.

but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.

See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.