And David says: "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another anymore, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in our brother's way.

Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,

as it is written: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone that will make men stumble, and a rock that will make them fall; and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."

So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? Certainly not! But through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.

Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

It is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble.