For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

avoiding this, lest anyone should blame us in this abundance which is ministered by us;

Nevertheless, lest we offend them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook, and take the first fish coming up. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a coin; taking that, give it to them for Me and you."

"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.

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 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.

If others partake of this right over you, do not we even more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but bear all things lest we hinder the gospel of 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.

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.

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

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

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.