Bible Verses About Prudence

Thus by your “knowledge” this weak person is destroyed, this brother for whom the Messiah died;

and so, when you sin against the brothers by wounding their conscience when it is weak, you are sinning against the Messiah!

To sum up, if food will be a snare for my brother, I will never eat meat again, lest I cause my brother to sin.

“Everything is permitted,” you say? Maybe, but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permitted?” Maybe, but not everything is edifying.

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

for the earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.

If some unbeliever invites you to a meal, and you want to go, eat whatever is put in front of you without raising questions of conscience.

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;

he has lavished on us. In all his wisdom and insight

Therefore, pay careful attention to how you conduct your life — live wisely, not unwisely.

Behave wisely toward outsiders, making full use of every opportunity —

Therefore, my dear brothers, let every person be quick to listen but slow to speak, slow to get angry;