Quotes About Worship

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

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.

so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”

Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you peoples.”

Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.

to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.

I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.

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),

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.

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

Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

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

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

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.