Comfort for the Contrite

14 And it shall be said,
(A)“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
    remove every obstruction from my people's way.”

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10 Go through, go through the gates;
    (A)prepare the way for the people;
(B)build up, build up the highway;
    clear it of stones;
    (C)lift up a signal over the peoples.

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(A)A voice cries:[a]
(B)“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
    (C)make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:3 Or A voice of one crying

(A)And a highway shall be there,
    and it shall be called the Way of Holiness;
(B)the unclean shall not pass over it.
    It shall belong to those who walk on the way;
    even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 35:8 Or if they are fools, they shall not wander in it

(A)Every valley shall be filled,
    (B)and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
(C)and the crooked shall become straight,
    and the rough places shall become level ways,
(D)and all flesh shall see (E)the salvation of God.’”

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15 (A)But my people have forgotten me;
    they make offerings to (B)false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
    (C)in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
    (D)not the highway,

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

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Do Not Cause Another to Stumble

13 (A)Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide (B)never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

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13 and (A)make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint (B)but rather be healed.

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We (A)put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,

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32 (A)Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to (B)the church of God, 33 just as (C)I try to please everyone in everything I do, (D)not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

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23 but we preach Christ (A)crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,

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But take care (A)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block (B)to the weak.

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