Quotes About Love

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.

However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.

So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

But the one who loves God is known by God.

Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

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.

If others have this right to your support, shouldnít we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

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.

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

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.

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 as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.

Donít you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,

and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”