1 Corinthians 8:13
Because of this, if food leads my brother to sin, I will never eat meat, lest I lead my brother to sin.
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Romans 14:21It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.
1 Corinthians 9:12If others are sharers in this authority over you, why are we not more entitled? And yet we have not used this authority. Instead, we bear all things, lest we give any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:33just as I also, in all things, please everyone, not seeking what is best for myself, but what is best for many others, so that they may be saved.
2 Corinthians 6:3May we never give offense to anyone, so that our ministry may not be disparaged.
2 Timothy 3:8And in the same manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so also will these resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobates from 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 →