And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the timid, sustain the weak, and be patient towards all.

Therefore strengthen the drooping hands and paralysed knees,

As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure.

I now pass to another subject. Receive as a friend a man whose faith is weak, but not for the purpose of deciding mere matters of opinion.

But all believers do not recognize these facts. Some, from force of habit in relation to the idol, even now eat idol sacrifices as such, and their consciences, being but weak, are polluted. It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it. But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.read more.
For if any one were to see you, who know the real truth of this matter, reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience (supposing him to be a weak believer) Why, your knowledge becomes the ruin of the weak believer--your brother, for whom Christ died! Moreover when you thus sin against the brethren and wound their weak consciences, you are, in reality, sinning against Christ.

In all things I have set you an example, showing you that, by working as I do, you ought to help the weak, and to bear in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, "'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.

Why, your knowledge becomes the ruin of the weak believer--your brother, for whom Christ died!