Then the disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees had their feelings hurt by what you said?"

"Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."

The right thing to do is to keep from eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that will make other believers fall.

We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not please ourselves.

For Christ did not please himself. Instead, as the scripture says, "The insults which are hurled at you have fallen on me."

Be careful, however, not to let your freedom of action make those who are weak in the faith fall into sin.

So then, if food makes a believer sin, I will never eat meat again, so as not to make a believer fall into sin.

I am a free man, nobody's slave; but I make myself everybody's slave in order to win as many people as possible.

In the same way, when working with Gentiles, I live like a Gentile, outside the Jewish Law, in order to win Gentiles. This does not mean that I don't obey God's law; I am really under Christ's law.

Live in such a way as to cause no trouble either to Jews or Gentiles or to the church of God.

Just do as I do; I try to please everyone in all that I do, not thinking of my own good, but of the good of all, so that they might be saved.

We do not want anyone to find fault with our work, so we try not to put obstacles in anyone's way.

and avoid every kind of evil.

In all things you yourself must be an example of good behavior. Be sincere and serious in your teaching.

Use sound words that cannot be criticized, so that your enemies may be put to shame by not having anything bad to say about us.

blessed them, and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals.

The brook will supply you with water to drink, and I have commanded ravens to bring you food there."

the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.

At the LORD's command a large fish swallowed Jonah, and he was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

Then the LORD ordered the fish to spit Jonah up on the beach, and it did.

You made them for a little while lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor,

and made them rulers over all things." It says that God made them "rulers over all things"; this clearly includes everything. We do not, however, see human beings ruling over all things now.

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.

Listen, my dear friends! God chose the poor people of this world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.