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For why should my liberty be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience?

The Bible (14th C BC - 2nd C AD) Christian sacred scripture
1 Corinthians 10:29

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.

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1 Corinthians 12:4-6

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

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1 Corinthians 13:1 (RSV)

If I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

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1 Corinthians 13:2

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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1 John 1:8-9

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

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1 Samuel 16:7

The love of money is the root of all evil.

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1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV)

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. “Go on up, you baldhead!” they said. “Go on up, you baldhead!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

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2 Kings 2:23-24 (NIV)

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor.

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Ecclesiastes 11:24

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

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Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart.

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Ecclesiastes 9:7

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

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Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 28:21-22

And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.  For a man’s mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.

The Bible (14th C BC - 2nd C AD) Christian sacred scripture
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 37:13-15 [KJV]
Alt trans.: "Trust also your own judgment, for it is your most reliable counselor. A man's mind has sometimes a way of telling him more than seven watchmen posted on a high tower."

There be some of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.

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Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 44:8-9

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.

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Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 6:14

Each one should judge his own conduct. If it is good, then he can be proud of what he himself has done, without having to compare it with what someone else has done. For everyone has to carry his own load.

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Galatians 6:4-5

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

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Hebrews 13:2

Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.
What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your riches?

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Isaiah 10:1-3 (NIV)

Alt. trans:

GNB: You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people. That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans. What will you do when God punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? Where will you run to find help? Where will you hide your wealth?

KJV: Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

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Isaiah 11:6

Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

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James 1:19

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it — he will be blessed in what he does.

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James 1:22-25 (NIV)
KJV: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. TEV: Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice. Whoever listens to the word but does not put it into practice is like a man who looks in a mirror and sees himself as he is. He takes a good look at himself and then goes away and at once forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks closely into the perfect law that sets people free, who keeps on paying attention to it and does not simply listen and then forget it, but puts it into practice -- that person will be blessed by God in what he does.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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James 1:27 (NIV)
TEV: What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world. KJV: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

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James 2:14-20 (KJV)

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.  Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

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John 13:34-45 (NRSV)
NIV: A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. KJV: A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

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John 13:34-55

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

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John 8:7

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise reason with thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

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Leviticus 19:17-18 (KJV)

From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded.

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Luke 12:48

Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

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Luke 14:11

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

The Bible (14th C BC - 2nd C AD) Christian sacred scripture
Luke 6:31 (KJV)

Alt trans.:

• "Do to others as you would have them do to you." (NRSV)
• "Do for others just what you want them to do for you." (GNT)

See also the Bible, Matthew 7:12.