2 Corinthians 6:3

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

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

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

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.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

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

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Abstain from every form of evil.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

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.

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

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.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

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

For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.

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

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

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