¹³ For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

²¹ It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

⁵ Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

³ Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;

²⁹ Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

¹² I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

¹² If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

¹⁹ For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.

²⁰ And to the Jews I was as a Jew, so that I might give the good news to them; to those under the law I was the same, not as being myself under the law, but so that I might give the good news to those under the law.

²¹ To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

²² To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

²³ And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

³³ Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.

¹ So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.

⁸ And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.

⁹ But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.