The Law of Liberty

14 Receive^(A) one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.

Bearing Others’ Burdens

15 We ^(A)then who are strong ought to bear with the ^[a]scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

⁷ However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, ^(A)with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is ^(B)defiled. ⁸ But ^(C)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 ^(D)beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become ^(E)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 ^(F)the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? ¹¹ And ^(G)because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? ¹² But ^(H)when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, ^(I)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

^22 (A)to the weak I became ^[a]as weak, that I might win the weak. ^(B)I have become all things to all men, ^(C)that I might by all means save some.

Glorify God Together

⁷ Therefore ^(A)receive one another, just ^(B)as Christ also received ^[a]us, to the glory of God.

Sectarianism Is Carnal

3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to ^(A)babes in Christ. ² I fed you with ^(B)milk and not with solid food; ^(C)for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;

²¹ It is good neither to eat ^(A)meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles ^[a]or is offended or is made weak.

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and ^(A)does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him;

¹⁹ And not being weak in faith, ^(A)he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), ^(B)and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.