Bible Verses About Commandments

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Messiah died.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Messiah.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Let all that you do be done in love.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the Torah of Messiah.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

neither give place to the devil.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.