1 Corinthians 8:11

And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak person is ruined – someone for whose sake Christ died!

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In The King James Version

And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

In Context

10For if someone should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol’s temple, will not their conscience, if they are weak, become so hardened that they, too, will eat food offered to idols?

12In this way, by sinning against your fellow followers of the Lord and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.

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Cross References

Romans 14:15If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your fellow follower’s feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin someone for whom Christ died!

Romans 15:1We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 10:33for I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but do what is best for others, so that they may be saved.

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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