If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. “Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!
But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah
Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.
No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.
And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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