Do Not Pass Judgment on One Another

14 As for ^(A)the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

The Example of Christ

15 ^(A)We who are strong ^(B)have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

⁷ Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

⁷ However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, ^(A)through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and ^(B)their conscience, being weak, is defiled. ^8 (C)Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. ⁹ But take care ^(D)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block ^(E)to the weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating^[a] in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,^[b] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And so by your knowledge this weak person is ^(F)destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. ¹² Thus, sinning against your brothers^[c] and ^(G)wounding their conscience when it is weak, ^(H)you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, ^(I)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

^22 (A)To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. ^(B)I have become all things to all people, that ^(C)by all means I might save some.

^16 (A)I will seek the lost, ^(B)and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and ^(C)the fat and the strong I will destroy.^[a] I will feed them in justice.

⁸ Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

⁹ I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. ¹⁰ So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.

Divisions in the Church

3 But I, brothers,^[a] could not address you as ^(A)spiritual people, but as ^(B)people of the flesh, as ^(C)infants in Christ. ^2 (D)I fed you with milk, not solid food, for ^(E)you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

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