Bible Verses About Charitableness

Anyone who serves the Messiah in this fashion both pleases God and wins the approval of other people.

So then, let us pursue the things that make for shalom and mutual upbuilding.

Don’t tear down God’s work for the sake of food. True enough, all things are clean; but it is wrong for anybody by his eating to cause someone to fall away.

What is good is not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

The belief you hold about such things, keep between yourself and God. Happy the person who is free of self-condemnation when he approves of something!

But the doubter comes under condemnation if he eats, because his action is not based on trust. And anything not based on trust is a sin.

But if someone says to you, “This meat was offered as a sacrifice,” then don’t eat it, out of consideration for the person who pointed it out and also for conscience’s sake —

however, I don’t mean your conscience but that of the other person. You say, “Why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

If I participate with thankfulness, why am I criticized over something for which I myself bless God?”

Well, whatever you do, whether it’s eating or drinking or anything else, do it all so as to bring glory to God.

Do not be an obstacle to anyone — not to Jews, not to Gentiles, and not to God’s Messianic Community.

Just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not looking out for my own interests but for those of the many, so that they may be saved;

I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels; but if I lack love, I have become merely blaring brass or a cymbal clanging.

I may have the gift of prophecy, I may fathom all mysteries, know all things, have all faith — enough to move mountains; but if I lack love, I am nothing.

I may give away everything that I own, I may even hand over my body to be burned; but if I lack love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful,

not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not gloat over other people’s sins but takes its delight in the truth.

Love always bears up, always trusts, always hopes, always endures.

Love never ends; but prophecies will pass, tongues will cease, knowledge will pass.

For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy partial;

but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, argued like a child; now that I have become a man, I have finished with childish ways.

For now we see obscurely in a mirror, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partly; then I will know fully, just as God has fully known me.

But for now, three things last — trust, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.