¹⁴ Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

¹⁸ Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it.

¹⁷ And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

³² Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.

¹⁷ Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

⁸ But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

⁹ But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

¹⁰ For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

¹¹ And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.

¹² And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

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.

¹³ Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

¹⁴ But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

¹⁷ And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

³² Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.

¹⁴ Give blessing and not curses to those who are cruel to you.

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

¹⁸ And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man: