1 Corinthians 8:13
If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
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Romans 14:21it is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles.
1 Corinthians 9:12If others partake of your bounty, shall not we the more? But we have not used this privilege, but we bear all things, in order that we may not give a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:33as I also please all in all things, seeking not my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.
2 Corinthians 6:3giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, in order that the ministry may not be blamed;
2 Timothy 3:8In the manner in which Jannes and Jambres also resisted Moses, so these indeed resist the truth; men who are corrupt as to their mind, reprobate concerning 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 →