Quotes About Sacrifice

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of Godís truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

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

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there.

For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

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

But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

But the married man is concerned about the affairs of this world, how he can please his wife,

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

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.

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.

For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idolís temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

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

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.

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

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.