For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

but, that we may not cause them to stumble, having gone to the sea, cast a hook, and the fish that hath come up first take thou up, and having opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater, that having taken, give to them for me and thee.'

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.

no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence.

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

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

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.

if others do partake of the authority over you -- not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

let no one seek his own -- but each another's.

become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.