¹⁴ You shall not curse the deaf, ^(A)nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

^18 (A)‘Cursed is the one who makes the blind to wander off the road.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

^32 (A)‘You shall ^[a]rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and ^(B)fear your God: I am the Lord.

¹⁷ Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear ^(A)God. Honor the king.

¹³ Therefore let us not judge one another ^[a]anymore, but rather resolve this, ^(A)not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.

¹⁷ Therefore ^(A)you shall not ^[a]oppress one another, ^(B)but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of ^(A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, ^(B)to eat things sacrificed to idols, ^(C)and to commit sexual immorality.

⁸ But ^(A)food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

⁹ But ^(B)beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become ^(C)a ^[a]stumbling block to those who are weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not ^(D)the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? ¹¹ And ^(E)because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? ¹² But ^(F)when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, ^(G)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but ^(A)I did not do so, because of the ^(B)fear of God.