When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. — Offense against the weak is reframed as sin against Christ himself. The wounded syneidēsis (conscience) is Christ's property; injury to the weak believer's moral integrity is injury to Christ. This radicalizes the ethics: one's behavior toward the vulnerable is behavior toward the risen Lord. Paul echoes the language of Matt 25 (whatever you did to the least, you did to me).

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