Quotes about Community
Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.
— 1 Corinthians 5:3
When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
— 1 Corinthians 5:4
What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
— 1 Corinthians 5:12
If any of you has a grievance against another, how dare he go to law before the unrighteous instead of before the saints!
— 1 Corinthians 6:1
I say this to your shame. Is there really no one among you wise enough to arbitrate between his brothers?
— 1 Corinthians 6:5
Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!
— 1 Corinthians 6:6
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
— 1 Corinthians 8:1
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
Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.
— 1 Corinthians 10:17
Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
— 1 Corinthians 10:18
No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.
— 1 Corinthians 10:24
Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
— 1 Corinthians 10:32