¹⁴ "'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

¹⁸ Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amen.

¹⁷ You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

³² You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

¹⁷ Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

⁸ But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

⁹ But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

¹⁰ For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

¹¹ And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

¹² Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

¹³ Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

¹³ Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

¹⁷ If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as strangers here in reverent fear:

³² Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don't curse.

¹⁵ But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.

¹⁸ Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.