Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:24 ESV

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:23 ESV

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:22 ESV

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.

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:21 ESV

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.

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:20 ESV

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.

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:17 ESV

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:16 ESV

For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:14 ESV

In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:11 ESV

If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 9:10 ESV

Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:10 ESV

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:9 ESV

But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:12 ESV

Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:11 ESV

And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:8 ESV

Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:5 ESV

For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"—

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Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 1 Corinthians 8:3 ESV

But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

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