Verse 3

We give no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 14:13 : 13 Therefore, let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others have this right to receive from you, shouldn’t we have it even more? But we have not used this right. Instead, we endure all things so that we will not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
  • Matt 17:27 : 27 But so that we do not cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take it and give it to them for My tax and yours.
  • Matt 18:6 : 6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
  • 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak, I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all possible means I might save some.
  • 1 Cor 10:23-24 : 23 Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up. 24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
  • 1 Cor 10:32-33 : 32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks, or the church of God. 33 Just as I also try to please everyone in all things, not seeking my own benefit but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity and godly sincerity, not relying on worldly wisdom but on God's grace.
  • 2 Cor 8:20 : 20 We are taking this precaution so that no one will criticize us regarding this generous gift we are administering.
  • 1 Cor 8:9-9 : 9 But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols? 11 So the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 When you sin in this way against your brothers and sisters and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.