just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.

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.

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,

What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God, and disgrace those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you!

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord, and of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

(for if one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);

but if I am delayed, [I write] so that you may know how it is necessary to conduct oneself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.