²¹ it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.^[a](A)

¹³ Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never again eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall.^(A)

Do Not Make Another Stumble

¹³ Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother or sister.^(A)

Please Others, Not Yourselves

15 We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.^{(A) 2} Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.^(B)

Some Sayings of Jesus

17 Jesus^[a] said to his disciples, “Occasions for sin^[b] are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come!^{(A) 2} It would be better for you if a millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea than for you to cause one of these little ones to sin.^[c](B)

⁷ Woe to the world because of things that cause sin!^[a] Such things are bound to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!^(A)

⁸ “If your hand or your foot causes you to sin,^[b] cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than to have two hands or two feet and to be thrown into the eternal fire.^{(B) 9} And if your eye causes you to sin,^[c] tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into the hell^[d] of fire.^(C)

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

¹⁰ “Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven.^[e](D)

⁸ But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,^(A)

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.^[a](A)

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