1 Corinthians 8:9-13

Liberty Must Not Cause Stumbling

1 Corinthians 8:9-13

Liberty Must Not Cause Stumbling

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but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,
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for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat--shall not his conscience--he being infirm--be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,
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and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?
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and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience--in regard to Christ ye sin;
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wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh--to the age--that my brother I may not cause to stumble.
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Galatians 5:13

    For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
    from verse 9

  • Romans 14:20

    for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, are pure, but evil is to the man who is eating through stumbling.
    from verse 9

  • Romans 14:21

    Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.
    from verse 9

  • 1 Peter 2:16

    as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
    from verse 9

  • Matthew 18:6

    and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.
    from verse 9

  • Romans 14:15

    and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.
    from verse 9

  • 2 Peter 2:19

    liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,
    from verse 9

  • Romans 14:1

    And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;
    from verse 9

  • Romans 14:2

    one doth believe that he may eat all things--and he who is weak doth eat herbs;
    from verse 9

  • Romans 15:1

    And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;
    from verse 9

  • Romans 15:3

    for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'
    from verse 11

  • Matthew 25:45

    `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these, the least, ye did it not to me.
    from verse 12
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