If I had said,“ I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

我若说，“我要这样讲”，这就是以奸诈待你的众子。

我若说“我要这样讲”，就是愧对这世代的众儿女了。

我若说“我要这样讲”，就是愧对这世代的众儿女了。

要是我这样说，我就是背叛了你的子民。

如果我心里说：“我要说这样的话”，我就是对你这一代的众儿女不忠了。

如果我这样说话，就是对你这一代的儿女背信了。

我若說，我要這樣講，這就是以奸詐待你的眾子。

我若說「我要這樣講」，就是愧對這世代的眾兒女了。

我若說「我要這樣講」，就是愧對這世代的眾兒女了。

要是我這樣說，我就是背叛了你的子民。

如果我心裡說：“我要說這樣的話”，我就是對你這一代的眾兒女不忠了。

我若心裏說：『我要持這言論』，那我就對主你子孫的族類不住了。

如果我這樣說話，就是對你這一代的兒女背信了。

我若自謂必為是言、乃行詐於爾眾子兮、

予言若此、逆上帝眾子兮、

我若如此言論、恐待主之子民不誠實、

我若隨聲和。將遺子孫毒。

If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed your children.

What if I had talked like that? Then I wouldn’t have been faithful to God’s children.

If I had said,“ I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

If I had really spoken this way to others, I would have been a traitor to your people.

If I had decided to say these things aloud, I would have betrayed your people.

If I had said,“ I will speak this way,” Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

If I had said,“ I will speak thus,” Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.

If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

If I had decided to say these things aloud, I would have betrayed Your people.

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend[ against] the generation of thy children.

If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your loyal followers.

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.“ Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face— even Jacob. Selah.

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.

But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.