Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make the LORD's people to transgress.

But you have departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.

But whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!

But if your brother is grieved with your food, you no longer walk in love. Destroy not him with your food, for whom Christ died.

It is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

Therefore, if food makes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat while the world stands, lest I make my brother to stumble.

A posterity shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: