15 Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. (A)Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

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15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love.(A) Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.(B)

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11 And (A)because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But (B)when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

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11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed(A) by your knowledge. 12 When you sin against them(B) in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.(C)

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(A)fulfill my joy (B)by being like-minded, having the same love, being of (C)one accord, of one mind. (D)Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but (E)in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. (F)Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of (G)others.

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then make my joy complete(A) by being like-minded,(B) having the same love, being one(C) in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.(D) Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,(E) not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.(F)

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13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only (A)do not use liberty as an (B)opportunity for the flesh, but (C)through love serve one another.

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Life by the Spirit

13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.(A) But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a];(B) rather, serve one another(C) humbly in love.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 5:13 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 16, 17, 19 and 24; and in 6:8.

And (A)walk in love, (B)as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God (C)for a sweet-smelling aroma.

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and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us(A) and gave himself up for us(B) as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.(C)

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(A)Love suffers long and is (B)kind; love (C)does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not [a]puffed up; does not behave rudely, (D)does not seek its own, is not provoked, [b]thinks no evil;

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:4 arrogant
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:5 keeps no accounts of evil

Love is patient,(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(B) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(C) it is not easily angered,(D) it keeps no record of wrongs.(E)

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Be Sensitive to Conscience

Now (A)concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have (B)knowledge. (C)Knowledge [a]puffs up, but love [b]edifies.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:1 makes arrogant
  2. 1 Corinthians 8:1 builds up

Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols

Now about food sacrificed to idols:(A) We know that “We all possess knowledge.”(B) But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.

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(A)Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to [a]edification.

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  1. Romans 15:2 building up

Each of us should please our neighbors for their good,(A) to build them up.(B)

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20 (A)Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. (B)All things indeed are pure, (C)but it is evil for the man who eats with [a]offense.

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  1. Romans 14:20 A feeling of giving offense

20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.(A) All food is clean,(B) but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.(C)

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And (A)He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but (B)also for the whole world.

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He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins,(A) and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.(B)

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The Greatest Gift

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

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13 If I speak in the tongues[a](A) of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 Or languages

10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore (A)love is the fulfillment of the law.

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10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.(A)

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22 “Because with (A)lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have (B)strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life.

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22 Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies,(A) when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,(B)

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