Quotes about Responsibility
However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.
— 1 Corinthians 7:36
Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
— 1 Corinthians 8:9
So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
— 1 Corinthians 8:11
By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
— 1 Corinthians 8:12
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.
— 1 Corinthians 8:13
If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
— 1 Corinthians 9:12
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
— 1 Corinthians 9:16
If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.
— 1 Corinthians 9:17
the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?
— 1 Corinthians 10:29
For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
— 1 Corinthians 11:21
For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
— 1 Corinthians 11:29
If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.
— 1 Corinthians 11:34