Mat 5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Mat 5:30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
Mat 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Mat 19:10 The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”
Joh 11:50 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”
Joh 16:7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
Joh 18:14 It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.
Act 19:19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Act 20:20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
1Cor 6:12 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
1Cor 7:35 I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
1Cor 10:23 “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
1Cor 10:33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
1Cor 12:7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
2Cor 8:10 And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it.
2Cor 12:1 I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Heb 12:10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
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