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

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

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

Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

Surely you have instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.

Strengthen the weak hands, And make firm the feeble knees.

Say to those [who are] fearful-hearted, "Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [With] the recompense of God; He will come and save you."

He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arm, And carry [them] in His bosom, [And] gently lead those who are with young.

A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth.

"The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them.

"I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment."

"For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land [who] will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces.

A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench, Till He sends forth justice to victory;

And immediately Jesus stretched out [His] hand and caught him, and said to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"

" But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

" Take heed 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.

"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual [people] but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.

I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able [to receive it,] and even now you are still not able;

However, [there is] not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat [it] as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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 whom Christ died?

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

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

Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.

" He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.

"And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold [water] in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward."

"Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.

"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such men in esteem;

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him;

We therefore ought to receive such, that we may become fellow workers for the truth.

Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words. And not content with that, he himself does not receive the brethren, and forbids those who wish to, putting [them] out of the church.