For if anyone should see you who has knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened so that they eat foods offered to idols?

Let no one seek his own concerns, but let each [one] seek another's concern.

"Conscience," I say, not your own, but that of the other. For why is my freedom judged by another man's conscience?

"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone be hanged on his neck, and he be drowned in the depth of the sea.

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

"See that you do not despise one of these little [ones], for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

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.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but [are] evil for the man eating with offense.

It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or becomes weak.

For you, brothers were called to freedom; only do not use freedom for an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

as free, yet not using freedom as a cover for wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

promising to them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been defeated, by this [one] also he has been enslaved.

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

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?

Because they ministered to them before their idols, and it became to the house of Israel a punishment of iniquity; therefore have I lifted up My hand against them, says the Lord God.

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 if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food the one on behalf of whom Christ died.

For you, brothers were called to freedom; only do not use freedom for an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

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.

But when you thus sin against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

to the weak I became as weak, in order that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.

Be strong, you relaxed hands and feeble knees.

Receive one that is weak in the faith, not for disputes over opinions.

One indeed believes that he may eat all things, but another, being weak, eats [only] vegetables.

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

To our shame, I say that we were too weak [for that]! But in whatever anyone is bold (I speak foolishly) I am bold also.