"If a bull gores someone to death, it is to be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but its owner is not to be punished.

However, if the owner is allowed to pay a fine to save his life, he must pay the full amount required.

If the bull kills a male or female slave, its owner shall pay the owner of the slave thirty pieces of silver, and the bull shall be stoned to death.

he must pay for the animal. He is to pay the money to the owner and may keep the dead animal.

But if it was known that the bull had been in the habit of attacking and its owner did not keep it penned up, he must make good the loss by giving the other man a live bull, but he may keep the dead animal.

"If someone starts a fire in his own field and it spreads through the weeds to someone else's field and burns up grain that is growing or that has been cut and stacked, the one who started the fire is to pay for the damage.

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.

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

so that you will be able to choose what is best. Then you will be free from all impurity and blame on the Day of Christ.

and avoid every kind of evil.

One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in her house. She was very beautiful.

This is a message about the Valley of Vision. What is happening? Why are all the people of the city celebrating on the roofs of the houses?

The houses of Jerusalem, the houses of the kings of Judah, and indeed all the houses on whose roofs incense has been burned to the stars and where wine has been poured out as an offering to other gods---they will all be as unclean as Topheth."

What I am telling you in the dark you must repeat in broad daylight, and what you have heard in private you must announce from the housetops.

Because of the crowd, however, they could not get the man to him. So they made a hole in the roof right above the place where Jesus was. When they had made an opening, they let the man down, lying on his mat.

The next day, as they were on their way and coming near Joppa, Peter went up on the roof of the house about noon in order to pray.

If I announce that someone evil is going to die but you do not warn him to change his ways so that he can save his life, he will die, still a sinner, but I will hold you responsible for his death.

"If someone truly good starts doing evil and I put him in a dangerous situation, he will die if you do not warn him. He will die because of his sins---I will not remember the good he did---and I will hold you responsible for his death.

"Mortal man," he said, "give a solemn warning to the king of Egypt. Give him this message from me: You act like a lion among the nations, but you are more like a crocodile splashing through a river. You muddy the water with your feet and pollute the rivers.

I will throw you out on the ground and bring all the birds and animals of the world to feed on you.

I will pour out your blood until it spreads over the mountains and fills the streams.

I will put out all the lights of heaven and plunge your world into darkness. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken.

"If anyone should cause one of these little ones to lose his faith in me, it would be better for that person to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the deep sea.

How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen---but how terrible for the one who causes them!

So I solemnly declare to you this very day: if any of you should be lost, I am not responsible.

For I have not held back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.