Nevertheless, that we not offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you.

And the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets with one mouth are agreeable to the king. Please, let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak pleasant things.

And Micaiah said, As Jehovah lives, whatever Jehovah says to me, that I will speak.

Do not become a cause of stumbling, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God,

just as I also strive to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own profit, but of the many, in order that they may be saved.

Giving no cause of stumbling in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed.

to whom we did not yield in submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, fair, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.