⁹ And it is my prayer that ^(A)your love may abound more and more, ^(B)with knowledge and all discernment,

¹⁵ but ^(A)as he who called you is holy, you also be holy ^(B)in all your conduct, ¹⁶ since it is written, ^(C)“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

¹⁶ I urge you, then, ^(A)be imitators of me.

⁹ But take care ^(A)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block ^(B)to the weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating^[a] in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,^[b] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And so by your knowledge this weak person is ^(C)destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. ¹² Thus, sinning against your brothers^[c] and ^(D)wounding their conscience when it is weak, ^(E)you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, ^(F)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

¹⁹ For ^(A)though I am free from all, ^(B)I have made myself a servant to all, that I might ^(C)win more of them. ^20 (D)To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. ²¹ To ^(E)those outside the law I became ^(F)as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but ^(G)under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. ^22 (H)To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. ^(I)I have become all things to all people, that ^(J)by all means I might save some. ²³ I do it all for the sake of the gospel, ^(K)that I may share with them in its blessings.