![]() ![]() After all, we’re all children of God, so it’s no surprise His Word is full of parenting wisdom, and understanding, when it comes to the unconditional love (and, also: the worrying, discipline, second-guessing…) that goes into caring for another human. Whether you’re a parent, expectant parent, or grandparent, there’s an endless well of comfort, advice, and quotes about gratitude to be found in the Bible. As any mother or father knows, the process of raising a child is rich with emotions, uncertainties, joys, and sorrows. And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well go in peace and be healed of your affliction.There’s a saying that rings true for all parents: Having a child is like having your heart walking around outside of your body. But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. ![]() Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?” And His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in on You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’” And He looked around to see the woman who had done this. read more.įor she thought, “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.” Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.Ī woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse- after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak. And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols? For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. But food will not commend us to God we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat. ![]() However not all men have this knowledge but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol and their conscience being weak is defiled. For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one. If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies. Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. ![]()
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