1 Corinthians 8:13

For which reason, if meat cause my brother to fall, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

In Context

12But if you sin in this way against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

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Cross References

Romans 14:21It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak.

1 Corinthians 9:12If others partake of this right over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this right: but we endure all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of the Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:33even as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own good, but that of the many, in order that they may be saved.

2 Corinthians 6:3for we put no stumbling-block in any man’s way, in order that this ministry may not be blamed;

2 Timothy 3:8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also will withstand the truth; men corrupt in mind, rejected as it respects the faith.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 8:8-13

On Eating Things Offered to Idols. ( a. d. 57.) 7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. 10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at… Read the whole commentary →

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