Romans 14:18

Catholic Public Domain Version

For he who serves Christ in this, pleases God and is proven before men.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you behave well, will you not receive? But if you behave badly, will not sin at once be present at the door? And so its desire will be within you, and you will be dominated by it."

Ecclesiastes 9:7

So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.

Mark 13:34

It is like a man who, setting out on a sojourn, left behind his house, and gave his servants authority over every work, and instructed the doorkeeper to stand watch.

John 12:26

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. And where I am, there too my minister shall be. If anyone has served me, my Father will honor him.

Acts 10:35

But within every nation, whoever fears him and works justice is acceptable to him.

Romans 12:11

in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;

Romans 14:4

Who are you to judge the servant of another? He stands or falls by his own Lord. But he shall stand. For God is able to make him stand.

Romans 16:18

For ones such as these do not serve Christ our Lord, but their inner selves, and, through pleasing words and skillful speaking, they seduce the hearts of the innocent.

Romans 6:22

Yet truly, having been freed now from sin, and having been made servants of God, you hold your fruit in sanctification, and truly its end is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For any servant who has been called in the Lord is free in the Lord. Similarly, any free person who has been called is a servant in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:2

For we renounce dishonorable and hidden acts, not walking by craftiness, nor by adulterating the Word of God. Instead, by the manifestation of truth, we commend ourselves to the conscience of each man before God.

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, having knowledge of the fear of the Lord, we appeal to men, but we are made manifest before God. Yet I hope, too, that we may be made manifest in your consciences.

2 Corinthians 5:9

And thus we struggle, whether absent or present, to please him.

2 Corinthians 6:4

But in all things, let us exhibit ourselves as ministers of God with great patience: through tribulation, difficulties, and distress;

2 Corinthians 8:21

For we provide for what is good, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of men.

Philippians 4:18

But I have everything in abundance. I have been filled up, having received from Epaphroditus the things that you sent; this is an odor of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

Philippians 4:8

Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.

Colossians 3:24

For you know that you will receive from the Lord the repayment of an inheritance. Serve Christ the Lord.

1 Timothy 2:3

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let her first learn to manage her own household, and to fulfill, in turn, her own obligation to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

1 Peter 2:12

Keep your behavior among the Gentiles to what is good, so that, when they slander you as if you were evildoers, they may, by the good works that are seen in you, glorify God on the day of visitation.

1 Peter 2:20

For what glory is there, if you sin and then suffer a beating? But if you do well and suffer patiently, this is grace with God.

1 Peter 2:5

be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 3:16

But do so with meekness and fear, having a good conscience, so that, in whatever matter they may slander you, they shall be confounded, since they falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ.