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Related Verses

Romans 15:1
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 8:7–12
However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

Philippians 2:14
Do all things without grumbling or disputing,

1 Timothy 2:8
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

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