¹⁵ If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

²⁴ Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people to transgress.

¹¹ For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

¹² And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.

¹³ Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

²¹ It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor `to do anything' whereby thy brother stumbleth.

¹⁵ For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.

⁶ But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and `that' he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.

⁷ Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!

⁸ But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

⁶ This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, `even' Jacob. Selah

³⁰ A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord unto the `next' generation.

⁵ There were they in great fear; For God is in the generation of the righteous.

⁹ But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for `God's' own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: