If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.
But you have departed from the way. You have caused many to stumble at the law. You have violated the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of Hosts.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may declare the goodness of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine, nor do anything whereby your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
If your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food one for whom Christ died.
This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face. Selah
Their descendants will serve Him; the next generation will be told about the Lord;
There they are in great fear, for God is with the company of the righteous.
No, my sons! Truly, it is not a good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading.