【Thy Love, O Lord】

Day and night do I think of Thy love, O Lord,

It's height and its depth - O how great!

Pouring down like a great waterfall, O Lord,

Thy love doth my being elate.

Thou didst come down from heav’n

For love’s sake, O Lord,

Forsaking Thy glory and Thy throne.

Thou wast born Son of Man under law, O Lord,

Without any wealth called Thine own.

Like a savory feast is Thy love, O Lord,

My whole being to satisfy.

How I thank Thee for taking my place, O Lord,

To endure the cross and to die.

Thou hast rescued me from sin and death, O Lord,

Thy blood washed my heart—white as snow.

Thou hast sent Thy Spirit to help me, O Lord,

That I might please Thee here below.

Chorus:

All my love is poured out at Thy feet, O Lord,

None can satisfy my heart so well,

Most delightful and precious art Thou, O Lord.

I love in Thy bosom to dwell.

【1 Cor 8:1-13】

1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

3 But anyone who loves God is known by him.

4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

5 For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “Lords”—

6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

7 However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.

9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.