With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

I do not mean that we rule over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.

But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!

Now it is clear no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous one will live by faith.

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

He has not held fast to the head from whom the whole body, supported and knit together through its ligaments and sinews, grows with a growth that is from God.

Do not extinguish the Spirit.

and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold on to the traditions that we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.

For the scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and, “The worker deserves his pay.”

I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

And the Lord’s slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient,

who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”