Quotes About Responsibility

This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are Godís servants, who devote themselves to their work.

Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

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

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.

We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.

If anyone destroys Godís temple, God will destroy him; for Godís temple is holy, and you are that temple.

So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

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

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

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.

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.

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.

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