There will be a highway there, called "The Road of Holiness." No sinner will ever travel that road; no fools will mislead those who follow it.

A voice cries out, "Prepare in the wilderness a road for the LORD! Clear the way in the desert for our God!

People of Jerusalem, go out of the city And build a road for your returning people! Prepare a highway; clear it of stones! Put up a signal so that the nations can know

Every valley must be filled up, every hill and mountain leveled off. The winding roads must be made straight, and the rough paths made smooth.

The whole human race will see God's salvation!' "

So then, let us stop judging one another. Instead, you should decide never to do anything that would make others stumble or fall into sin.

As for us, we proclaim the crucified Christ, a message that is offensive to the Jews and nonsense to the Gentiles;

Be careful, however, not to let your freedom of action make those who are weak in the faith fall into sin.

So then, if food makes a believer sin, I will never eat meat again, so as not to make a believer fall into sin.

Live in such a way as to cause no trouble either to Jews or Gentiles or to the church of God.

Just do as I do; I try to please everyone in all that I do, not thinking of my own good, but of the good of all, so that they might be saved.

We do not want anyone to find fault with our work, so we try not to put obstacles in anyone's way.

Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed.