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Daily Reading

1 CORINTHIANS 8:1-7, 11-13 PSALM 139:1-3, 13-14, 23-24 LUKE 6:27-38

Taken together, that's a call to give up a right you actually have — to eat what you like, to defend yourself, to be measured fairly — for the sake of somebody weaker or worse-behaved than you. Paul's argument isn't that the knowledgeable Corinthian is wrong about the idol being nothing; he's right. The point is that being right doesn't automatically make an action loving, and love, not correctness, is what actually builds people up. The Psalm grounds that demand in something more personal than obligation: the God asking you to set aside your rights already searched you before you were born and knows exactly what he's asking of you. And Luke pushes the same logic to its hardest edge — not just tolerance for the weak, but active love for the enemy, measured out with the same generosity you'd want measured back to you.

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