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.

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat flesh, so that I not make my brother stumble.

Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a snare in our brother's way.

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

that you may examine the things that differ, that you may be sincere and without blame unto the day of Christ,

What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? 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, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

(for if a man 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 you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.