Quotes About Purpose

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

I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable.

Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.

Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.

There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.

If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design.

If they were all one part, where would the body be?

As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it.

But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.