Mat 15:12-14, Rom 14:21, 15:1-3, 1Cor 8:9, 13, 9:19-22, 10:32-33, 2Cor 6:3 | ESV | STEP | Then the disciples came and said to him , Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying ?

12 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were ^aoffended when they heard this saying?” 13 He answered, ^b“Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted ^cwill be rooted up. 14 Let them alone; ^dthey are blind guides. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add of the blind} And ^fif the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Romans 14:21

21 ^gIt is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add or be hindered or be weakened}

Romans 15:1-3

The Example of Christ

1 ⁱWe who are strong ^jhave an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 ^kLet each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3 For ^lChrist did not please himself, but as it is written, ^m“The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

1 Corinthians 8:9

9 But take care ⁿthat this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block ^oto the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:13

13 Therefore, ^pif food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

1 Corinthians 9:19-22

19 For ^qthough I am free from all, ^rI have made myself a servant to all, that I might ^swin more of them. 20 ^tTo the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21 To ^uthose outside the law I became ^vas one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but ^wunder the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 ^xTo the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. ^yI have become all things to all people, that ^zby all means I might save some.

1 Corinthians 10:32-33

32 ^aaGive no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to ^abthe church of God, 33 just as ^acI try to please everyone in everything I do, ^adnot seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

2 Corinthians 6:3

3 We ^aeput no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,