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18 Bible Verses About Compromise

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Summary

  • In 1 Kings 18:21 Elijah offers the people two choices, the Lord or Baal, and the people said nothing.
  • Daniel 1:8 and Daniel 3:18 both refuse a king: the first with a request and a ten-day test, the second under threat of the blazing furnace.
  • Romans 14:1 tells believers to accept one another over “disputable matters,” which in that chapter include what a person eats and which days they keep.
  • The Jerusalem council’s letter (Acts 15:28-29) did not require circumcision of Gentile believers and kept four requirements.
  • Paul opposed Peter at Antioch (Galatians 2:11-14) for withdrawing from Gentile believers out of fear, saying it was not in line with “the truth of the gospel.”

The Bible allows no compromise over whom a person worships and serves, and asks for give and take between believers over matters it treats as disputable. Elijah’s question on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:21), the refusal before the golden image (Daniel 3:18) and Jesus’ saying about two masters (Matthew 6:24) stand on the first side. On the second stand Paul’s instruction to accept others “without quarreling over disputable matters” (Romans 14:1), his becoming “all things to all people” (1 Corinthians…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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