Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or he falls. And he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

and so did you not differentiate among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil against a brother and judges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. And if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

"And why do you not judge what is right even of yourselves?

Judge among yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered?

For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this: that if One died for all, then all died;

Why? Because [they did] not [seek it] by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled the stone of stumbling.

Just as it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offense, and everyone believing on Him will not be put to shame."

And David says: "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

Now I urge you, brothers, to look out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

You shall not revile the deaf, neither shall you put a stumbling block in the way of the blind; and you shall fear the Lord your God: I am the Lord your God.

And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of My people.

Son of man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them?

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block unto Me, because you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man through whom the offense comes!

It would be better for him if a millstone were around his neck, and he be cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for the sake of whom Christ died?

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will by no means eat meat, lest I cause my brother to stumble.

Be without offense, both toward Jews and toward Greeks, and toward the church of God,

We give no occasion for offense in anything, lest the ministry be blamed,

that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,

But I have a few things against you, because you have there [some] who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, both to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

Only because you have given great occasion of provocation to the enemies of the Lord by this thing, your son also that is born to you shall surely die.

Therefore I desire that the younger widows to marry, to bear children, to manage the house, to give no opportunity to the adversary because of reproach.

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.