I got a little behind on posting my verses, so here are two days in one.

Romans 14:15: "If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love."

Romans 15:4: "For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."
The Bible wasn't written to be a book of rules or a condemnation of us for our frailty as humans.  It was written to encourage us, to give us hope!  The message of the Gospel is good news.  Yes, we are fallen and live far short of the glory God intended for us.  But He has come and met us in our degraded state and made a way for us to be lifted up again.  If that is not reason for hope, I don't know what is!