For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
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