Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;