Bible verses about "compromise" | WNT

²⁴ "No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.

³⁴ Then calling to Him the crowd and also His disciples, He said to them, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.

⁶ "I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

²⁵ For they had bartered the reality of God for what is unreal, and had offered divine honours and religious service to created things, rather than to the Creator--He who is for ever blessed. Amen.

⁶ Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your request be unreservedly made known in the presence of God.

¹ Faithful is the saying, "If any one is eager to have the oversight of a Church, he desires a noble work." ² A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching; ³ not a hard drinker nor given to blows; not selfish or quarrelsome or covetous; ⁴ but ruling his own household wisely and well, with children kept under control with true dignity. ⁵ (If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?) ⁶ He ought not to be a new convert, for fear he should be blinded with pride and come under the same condemnation as the Devil. ⁷ It is needful also that he bear a good character with people outside the Church, lest he fall into reproach or a snare of the Devil. ⁸ Deacons, in the same way, must be men of serious demeanour, not double-tongued, nor addicted to much wine, nor greedy of base gain, ⁹ but holding the secret truths of the faith with a clear conscience. ¹⁰ And they must also be well-tried men, and when found to be of unblemished character then let them serve as deacons. ¹¹ Deaconesses, in the same way, must be sober-minded women, not slanderers, but in every way temperate and trustworthy. ¹² A deacon must be true to his one wife, and rule his children and his own household wisely and well. ¹³ For those who have filled the deacon's office wisely and well, are already gaining for themselves an honourable standing, and are acquiring great freedom of speech in proclaiming the faith which rests on Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ All this I write to you, though I am hoping before long to come to see you. ¹⁵ But, for fear I may be hindered, I now write, so that you may have rules to guide you in dealing with God's household. For this is what the Church of the ever-living God is, and it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the truth. ¹⁶ And, beyond controversy, great is the mystery of our religion-- that Christ appeared in human form, and His claims justified by the Spirit, was seen by angels and proclaimed among Gentile nations, was believed on in the world, and received up again into glory.

⁵ as righteous men, had done, but as the result of His own mercy He saved us by means of the bath of regeneration and the renewal of our natures by the Holy Spirit,

¹² Here is an opportunity for endurance on the part of God's people, who carefully keep His commandments and the faith of Jesus!"

³³ But make His Kingdom and righteousness your chief aim, and then these things shall all be given you in addition.

⁵ Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

⁷ For many deceivers have gone out into the world--men who do not acknowledge Jesus as Christ who has come in human nature. Such a one is 'the deceiver' and 'the anti-Christ.' ⁸ Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward. ⁹ No one has God, who instead of remaining true to the teaching of Christ, presses on in advance: but he who remains true to that teaching has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰ If any one who comes to you does not bring this teaching, do not receive him under your roof nor bid him Farewell. ¹¹ He who bids him Farewell is a sharer in his evil deeds.

²⁷ "'THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD,'" he replied, "'WITH THY WHOLE HEART, THY WHOLE SOUL, THY WHOLE STRENGTH, AND THY WHOLE MIND; AND THY FELLOW MAN AS MUCH AS THYSELF.'"

¹⁷ If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.

¹ I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship. ² And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect. ³ For through the authority graciously given to me I warn every individual among you not to value himself unduly, but to cultivate sobriety of judgement in accordance with the amount of faith which God has allotted to each one. ⁴ For just as there are in the one human body many parts, and these parts have not all the same function; ⁵ so collectively we form one body in Christ, while individually we are linked to one another as its members. ⁶ But since we have special gifts which differ in accordance with the diversified work graciously entrusted to us, if it is prophecy, let the prophet speak in exact proportion to his faith; ⁷ if it is the gift of administration, let the administrator exercise a sound judgement in his duties. ⁸ The teacher must do the same in his teaching; and he who exhorts others, in his exhortation. He who gives should be liberal; he who is in authority should be energetic and alert; and he who succours the afflicted should do it cheerfully. ⁹ Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right. ¹⁰ As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another. ¹¹ Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants, ¹² full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer. ¹³ Relieve the necessities of God's people; always practise hospitality. ¹⁴ Invoke blessings on your persecutors--blessings, not curses. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Have full sympathy with one another. Do not give your mind to high things, but let humble ways content you. DO NOT BE WISE IN YOUR OWN CONCEITS. ¹⁷ Pay back to no man evil for evil. TAKE THOUGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT AND SEEMLY IN EVERY ONE'S ESTEEM. ¹⁸ If you can, so far as it depends on you, live at peace with all the world. ¹⁹ Do not be revengeful, my dear friends, but give way before anger; for it is written, "'REVENGE BELONGS TO ME: I WILL PAY BACK,' says the Lord." ²⁰ On the contrary, therefore, IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, GIVE HIM FOOD; IF HE IS THIRSTY, QUENCH HIS THIRST. FOR BY DOING THIS YOU WILL BE HEAPING BURNING COALS UPON HIS HEAD. ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome the evil with goodness.

¹ I now pass to another subject. Receive as a friend a man whose faith is weak, but not for the purpose of deciding mere matters of opinion. ² One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while a man of weaker faith eats nothing but vegetables. ³ Let not him who eats certain food look down upon him who abstains from it, nor him who abstains from it find fault with him who eats it; for God has received both of them. ⁴ Who are you that you should find fault with the servant of another? Whether he stands or falls is a matter which concerns his own master. But stand he will; for the Master can give him power to stand. ⁵ One man esteems one day more highly than another; another esteems all days alike. Let every one be thoroughly convinced in his own mind. ⁶ He who regards the day as sacred, so regards it for the Master's sake; and he who eats certain food eats it for the Master's sake, for he gives thanks to God; and he who refrains from eating it refrains for the Master's sake, and he also gives thanks to God. ⁷ For not one of us lives to himself, and not one dies to himself. ⁸ If we live, we live to the Lord: if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. ⁹ For this was the purpose of Christ's dying and coming to life--namely that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you find fault with your brother? Or you, why do you look down upon your brother? We shall all stand before God to be judged; ¹¹ for it is written, "'AS I LIVE,' says the Lord, 'TO ME EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL MAKE CONFESSION TO GOD.'" ¹² So we see that every one of us will give account of himself to God. ¹³ Therefore let us no longer judge one another; but, instead of that, you should come to this judgement--that we must not put a stumbling-block in our brother's path, nor anything to trip him up. ¹⁴ As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is 'impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is. ¹⁵ If your brother is pained by the food you are eating, your conduct is no longer controlled by love. Take care lest, by the food you eat, you lead to ruin a man for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ Therefore do not let the boon which is yours in common be exposed to reproach. ¹⁷ For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of right conduct, peace and joy, through the Holy Spirit; ¹⁸ and whoever in this way devotedly serves Christ, God takes pleasure in him, and men highly commend him. ¹⁹ Therefore let us aim at whatever makes for peace and mutual upbuilding of character. ²⁰ Do not for food's sake be throwing down God's work. All food is pure; but a man is in the wrong if his food is a snare to others. ²¹ The right course is to forego eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything that tends to your brother's fall. ²² As for you and your faith, keep your faith to yourself in the presence of God. The man is to be congratulated who does not pronounce judgement on himself in what his actions sanction. ²³ But he who has misgivings and yet eats meat is condemned already, because his conduct is not based on faith; for all conduct not based on faith is sinful.

²⁶ For if we wilfully persist in sin after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains in reserve any other sacrifice for sins.

¹⁵ "If you love me, you will obey my commandments.