^29 (A)Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

^22 (A)To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. ^(B)I have become all things to all people, that ^(C)by all means I might save some.

¹³ Therefore, ^(A)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Paul's Concern for the Galatians

⁸ Formerly, when you ^(A)did not know God, you ^(B)were enslaved to those that by nature ^(C)are not gods. ⁹ But now that you have come to know God, or rather ^(D)to be known by God, ^(E)how can you turn back again to ^(F)the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? ^10 (G)You observe days and months and seasons and years! ¹¹ I am afraid ^(H)I may have labored over you in vain.

¹² Brothers,^{[a] (I)}I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. ^(J)You did me no wrong. ¹³ You know it was ^(K)because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you ^(L)at first, ¹⁴ and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me ^(M)as an angel of God, ^(N)as Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. ¹⁶ Have I then become your enemy by ^(O)telling you the truth?^{[b] 17} They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them. ¹⁸ It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and ^(P)not only when I am present with you, ^19 (Q)my little children, ^(R)for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ ^(S)is formed in you! ²⁰ I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.

¹⁵ “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. ^(A)Would that you were either cold or hot! ¹⁶ So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. ^17 (B)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, ^(C)blind, and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel you ^(D)to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and ^(E)white garments so that you may clothe yourself and ^(F)the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, ^(G)so that you may see.

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman ^(A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants ^(B)to practice sexual immorality and ^(C)to eat food sacrificed to idols.

^2 (A)“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but ^(B)have tested those ^(C)who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

Judgment on False Teachers

³ Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our ^(A)common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you ^(B)to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. ⁴ For ^(C)certain people ^(D)have crept in unnoticed ^(E)who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert ^(F)the grace of our God into sensuality and ^(G)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, ^(A)do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, ¹¹ for whoever greets him ^(B)takes part in his wicked works.