1 Corinthians 8:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

📖 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 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
• Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another. 21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
• Rom 14:1-2 : 1 Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings. 2 One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.
• Rom 14:13-15 : 13 Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting. 14 I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean. 15 And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.
• 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.
• 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;
• 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?
• 1 Cor 8:12 : 12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.
• 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.
• 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
• 1 Cor 10:29 : 29 Right and wrong, I say, not for you, but for the other man; for the fact that I am free is not dependent on another man's sense of right or wrong.
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.
• 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.
• Rom 15:1 : 1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
• Lev 19:14 : 14 Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.
• Isa 35:3 : 3 Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.
• Isa 57:14 : 14 And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.
• Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?
• Ezek 44:12 : 12 Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.
• Matt 18:6-7 : 6 But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea. 7 A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.
• Matt 18:10 : 10 Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.
• Luke 17:1-2 : 1 And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come. 2 It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.