Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? 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.
“And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
And it shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people's way.”
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.
have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?
Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
“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 he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;
Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”
“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?
You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
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