Bible verses about "compromise" | Goodspeed

²⁴ No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

³⁴ And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

²⁵ For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen!

⁶ Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.

¹ This is a trustworthy saying. Whoever aspires to the office of superintendent sets his heart on a fine work. ² A superintendent must be a man above reproach, only once married, temperate, sensible, a man of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; ³ not addicted to drink or pugnacious, but a man of moderation and peace, not avaricious, ⁴ managing his own house well, and keeping his children under control and perfectly respectful— ⁵ for if a man does not know how to conduct his own household, how can he look after a church of God? ⁶ He must not be a new convert, or he may grow conceited and incur criticism from slanderous people. ⁷ He must also be a man of good standing with outsiders, or he may get into disgrace and be entrapped by the slanderers. ⁸ Assistants, in turn, must be serious, straightforward men, not addicted to wine or dishonest gain, ⁹ but holding the divine truth of the faith with a clear conscience. ¹⁰ They should first be tested, and afterward, if there is no fault to be found with them, they can serve as assistants. ¹¹ Their wives too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate, and perfectly trustworthy. ¹² The assistants must be only once married, and manage their children and their households well. ¹³ For those who do good service as assistants gain a good standing for themselves and great confidence in their faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing you all this ¹⁵ so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. ¹⁶ No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

⁵ he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

¹² On this fact rests the endurance of God's people, who obey God's commands and cling to their faith in Jesus.

³³ But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

⁵ So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.

⁷ For many impostors have gone out into the world—men who do not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in human form. That is the mark of the impostor and the Antichrist. ⁸ Look out for yourselves, take care not to lose what we have worked for, but make sure that you are paid for it in full. ⁹ Anyone who goes too far and does not keep to the teaching of Christ has not God. It is the man who holds to the teaching who has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If anyone comes to you without bringing this teaching, do not let him come into the house or bid him good morning. ¹¹ For anyone who bids him good morning shares in his wicked work.

²⁷ He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

¹⁷ So when a man knows what is right and fails to do it, he is guilty of sin.

¹ I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship. ² You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is—what is good, pleasing, and perfect. ³ By the favor that God has shown me, I would tell every one of you not to think too highly of himself, but to think reasonably, judging himself by the degree of faith God has allowed him. ⁴ For just as there are many parts united in our human bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function, ⁵ so, many as we are, we form one body through union with Christ, and we are individually parts of one another. ⁶ We have gifts that differ with the favor that God has shown us, whether it is that of preaching, differing with the measure of our faith, ⁷ or of practical service, differing in the field of service, or the teacher who exercises his gift in teaching, ⁸ the speaker, in his exhortation, the giver of charity, with generosity, the office-holder, with devotion, the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. ⁹ Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right. ¹⁰ Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor, ¹¹ not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord. ¹² Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer. ¹³ Supply the needs of God's people, be unfailing in hospitality. ¹⁴ Bless your persecutors; bless them; do not curse them. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another. Do not be too ambitious, but accept humble tasks. Do not be conceited. ¹⁷ Do not pay anyone back with evil for evil. See that you are above reproach in the eyes of everyone. ¹⁸ If possible, for your part, live peaceably with everybody. ¹⁹ Do not take your revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord." ²⁰ No! If your enemy is hungry, feed him! If he is thirsty, give him something to drink! For if you do, you will heap burning coals upon his head! ²¹ Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

¹ Treat people who are overscrupulous in their faith like brothers; do not criticize their views. ² One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while the overscrupulous man eats nothing but vegetables. ³ The man who will eat anything must not look down on the man who abstains from some things, and the man who abstains from them must not criticize the one who does not, for God has accepted him. ⁴ Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? It is for his own master to say whether he succeeds or fails; and he will succeed, for the Master can make him do so. ⁵ One man thinks one day better than another, while another thinks them all alike. Everybody must be fully convinced in his own mind. ⁶ The man who observes the day does it in the Lord's honor. The man who eats does it in the Lord's honor, for he gives God thanks, and the man who abstains does it in the Lord's honor, and gives him thanks. ⁷ None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself; ⁸ if we live, we are responsible to the Lord, and if we die, we are responsible to him; so whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. ⁹ For Christ died and returned to life for the very purpose of being Lord of both the dead and the living. ¹⁰ What business have you to criticize your brother? What business have you to look down upon your brother? We shall all have to stand before God for judgment. ¹¹ For the Scripture says, "As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bend before me, And every tongue will make its confession to God." ¹² So each one of us must give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Therefore let us not criticize one another any more. You must resolve instead never to put any hindrance or obstacle in your brother's way. ¹⁴ I know and as a follower of the Lord Jesus I am convinced that nothing is unclean in itself; a thing is unclean only to the man who regards it as unclean. ¹⁵ For if your brother's feelings are hurt by what you eat, your life is not governed by love. You must not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ The thing you have a right to do must not become a cause of reproach. ¹⁷ The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of uprightness, peace, and happiness through the possession of the holy Spirit. ¹⁸ Whoever serves Christ in that way pleases God and gains the approval of men. ¹⁹ Let us, therefore, keep before us whatever will contribute to peace and the development of one another. ²⁰ You must not, just for the sake of food, undo the work of God. It is true, everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to hurt the consciences of others by what he eats. ²¹ The right thing to do is to eat no meat at all and to drink no wine or do anything else if it hurts your brother's conscience. ²² For your part, you must keep the faith you have to yourself, as between God and you. He is a happy man who has no fault to find with himself in following the course that he approves, ²³ but the man who has misgivings about eating, and then eats, is thereby condemned, for he is not following his convictions, and anything that does not rest on conviction is wrong.

²⁶ For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,

¹⁵ "If you really love me, you will observe my commands.