1 Corinthians 4:5
4:5 So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will
bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition
from God.
1 Corinthians 4:2
4:2 Now what is sought in stewards is that one be found faithful.
1 Corinthians 12:16-23
12:16 And if the ear says, “Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.
12:17 If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?
12:18 But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.
12:19 If they were all the same member, where would the body be?
12:20 So now there are many members, but one body.
12:21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot, “I do not need you.”
12:22 On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,
12:23 and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,
Acts 15:1-5
The Jerusalem Council
15:1 Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
15:2 When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement.
15:3 So they were sent on their way by the church, and as they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, they were relating at length the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.
15:4 When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all the things God had done with them.
15:5 But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses.”
Acts 16:3
16:3 Paul wanted Timothy
to accompany him, and he took
him and circumcised
him because of the Jews who were in those places,
for they all knew that his father was Greek.
Galatians 2:3-5
2:3 Yet
not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.
2:4 Now this matter arose
because of the false brothers with false pretenses
who slipped in unnoticed to spy on
our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.
2:5 But
we did not surrender to them
even for a moment,
in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.