1 Corinthians 8:9

American Standard Version (1901)

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Βλέπετε δὲ μή πως ἡ ἐξουσία ὑμῶν αὕτη πρόσκομμα γένηται τοῖς ἀσθενοῦσιν.

Transliteration

Blepete de mē pōs the exousia hymōn hautē proskomma genētai to the asthenousin.

Grammar Details

• *Blepete*: present, 2nd plural, imperative, active - look/see/take heed
• *de*: adversative/connective particle - but/and
• *mē* *pōs*: negative particle + adverb - lest somehow
• *exousia*: nominative, feminine, singular - authority/right/liberty
• *hymōn*: genitive, 2nd plural, personal pronoun - of you/your
• *hautē*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular - this
• *proskomma*: nominative, neuter, singular - stumbling block/offense
• *genētai*: aorist, 3rd singular, subjunctive, middle - might become
• *asthenousin*: present, participle, dative, masculine, plural - being weak/those who are weak

Word Meanings

• *Blepete*: look/see/take heed/be careful
• *exousia*: authority/right/liberty/freedom
• *proskomma*: stumbling block/offense/obstacle
• *asthenousin*: being weak/those who are weak/the weak ones

Referenced Verses

• Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
• Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth.
• Rom 14:1-2 : 1 But him that is weak in faith receive ye, [yet] not for decision of scruples. 2 One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.
• Rom 14:13-15 : 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling. 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.
• 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 Let no man seek his own, but [each] his neighbor's [good] .
• 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
• 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
• 1 Cor 8:12 : 12 And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.
• 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
• 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
• 1 Cor 10:29 : 29 conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:
• 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
• Rom 15:1 : 1 Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Lev 19:14 : 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
• Isa 35:3 : 3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
• Isa 57:14 : 14 And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
• Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
• Ezek 44:12 : 12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and became a stumblingblock of iniquity unto the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord Jehovah, and they shall bear their iniquity.
• Matt 18:6-7 : 6 But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and [that] he should be sunk in the depth of the sea. 7 Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!
• Matt 18:10 : 10 See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.
• Luke 17:1-2 : 1 And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come! 2 It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.