⁶ but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

⁴² Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he was thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

⁶ Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

⁷ and to give relief to you that are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

⁸ giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus,

⁹ who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵ Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

¹⁰ See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

¹⁵ "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"

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

³³ even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

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.

¹ Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

² Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

³ For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."

¹ He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

² It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

¹⁴ Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

⁷ "Awake, sword, against my shepherd, And against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; And I will turn my hand against the little ones.

⁸ For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

²¹ It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

⁵ He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.{TR adds "It's hard for you to kick against the goads."}