If I say, This is the way I will speak; behold, I would deceive a generation of Your sons.
There they feared with dread, for God is in the righteous generation.
A Seed shall serve Him; it shall be spoken of the Lord to the coming generation;
This is the generation of those seeking Him; they seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah.
But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the Law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of Hosts.
But if your brother is grieved because of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not by your food destroy that one for whom Christ died.
It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is caused to stumble, or is weak.
But you are “an elect race,” “a royal priesthood,” “a holy nation,” “a people for possession,” so that “you may proclaim the excellencies” of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; LXX-Ex. 23:22; MT-Ex. 19:5, 6
No, my sons, for the report which I am hearing is not good, causing the people of Jehovah to transgress.