As David says. Let their table be made a snare and a trap, And a stumbling-block and a recompense unto them;

So let us no longer pass judgment on one another; rather let this be your judgment, that no one put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, nor any cause of falling.

Do not, for the sake of food, be tearing down God's work. All food indeed is ceremonially clean, but a man is in the wrong if his food proves a stumbling-block.

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

I exhort you, brothers, to keep watch of those who are causing the divisions among you, and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the teaching which you have learned.

even as it is written. Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; but he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame.

Now if their stumbling enriches the world, and their loss enriches the Gentiles, how much more must their fulness do!

I ask then, "Have they stumbled so as to fall?" No indeed; but by their lapse salvation has come unto Gentiles, "to provoke Israel to jealousy."

The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.