For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

We then who are strong are obligated to bear with the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.

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

Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but judge this rather, not to put a stumbling block or an offense before our brother.

But you have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in [following] the law: you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.

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!

And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, than having two eyes, to be thrown into the fiery hell.

Then He said to the disciples, "It is impossible for offenses not to come, but woe [to the one] through whom they do come!

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.

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

and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed.

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.