TRV
Christian Liberty and Edification
1 Corinthians 10:23-33
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“Everything is permitted,” you say? Maybe, but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permitted?” Maybe, but not everything is edifying.
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No one should be looking out for his own interests, but for those of his fellow.
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Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
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for the earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.
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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.
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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 —
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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?
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If I participate with thankfulness, why am I criticized over something for which I myself bless God?”
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Well, whatever you do, whether it’s eating or drinking or anything else, do it all so as to bring glory to God.
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Do not be an obstacle to anyone — not to Jews, not to Gentiles, and not to God’s Messianic Community.
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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;
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