³ Only ^(A)the prince may sit in it ^(B)to eat bread before the Lord. He ^(C)shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.”

^2 (A)The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by ^(B)the post of the gate. ^(C)The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at ^(D)the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

¹⁸ Consider ^(A)the people of Israel:^{[a] (B)}are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? ¹⁹ What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that ^(C)an idol is anything? ²⁰ No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice ^(D)they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. ^21 (E)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and ^(F)the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and ^(G)the table of demons. ^22 (H)Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? ^(I)Are we stronger than he?

Do All to the Glory of God

^23 (J)“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. ^24 (K)Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. ^25 (L)Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. ²⁶ For ^(M)“the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” ²⁷ If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, ^(N)eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. ²⁸ But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— ²⁹ I do not mean ^(O)your conscience, but his. For ^(P)why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? ³⁰ If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that ^(Q)for which I give thanks?

³¹ So, whether you eat or drink, or ^(R)whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. ^32 (S)Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to ^(T)the church of God, ³³ just as ^(U)I try to please everyone in everything I do, ^(V)not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

^25 (A)They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there ^(B)forever, and David my servant shall be their prince ^(C)forever.

²⁴ And ^(A)I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. ^(B)I am the Lord; I have spoken.

⁵⁴ and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called ^(A)his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.

^8 (A)When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

^9 (B)“When the people of the land ^(C)come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. ¹⁰ When they enter, ^(D)the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

⁹ Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; ^(A)and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.

³¹ And the king ^(A)stood in his place ^(B)and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.