Bible verses about "safety" | Goodspeed

¹⁶ "Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves.

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.

¹⁹ My God will gloriously supply all your needs with his wealth, through your union with Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ The Lord will rescue me from any harm and bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹³ I can do anything through him who gives me strength.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he stands the test, he will be given the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

¹¹ You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.