¹⁵ If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

²⁴ Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of Jehovah to transgress. --

¹¹ and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?

¹² and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;

¹³ wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

²¹ Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

¹⁵ and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

⁶ and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.

⁷ `Wo to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but wo to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!

⁸ And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁶ This `is' a generation of those seeking Him. Seeking Thy face, O Jacob! Selah.

³⁰ A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation.

⁵ There they have feared a fear, For God `is' in the generation of the righteous.

⁹ and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;