1 Corinthians 8:9

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But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

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  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.
  • Rom 14:1-2 : 1 Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but do not engage in disputes over opinions. 2 One person believes they may eat anything, while someone who is weak eats only vegetables.
  • Rom 14:13-15 : 13 Therefore, let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. 15 If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.
  • 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols?
  • 1 Cor 8:12 : 12 When you sin in this way against your brothers and sisters and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak, I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all possible means I might save some.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you: You have those there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites—to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
  • 1 Cor 10:29 : 29 I do not mean your own conscience, but that of the other person's. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?
  • 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks, or the church of God.
  • 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 To my shame, I must admit that we were too weak for that! Yet whatever anyone else dares to boast about—I am speaking like a fool—I also dare to boast.
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 We who are strong ought to bear with the weaknesses of those who are weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • Lev 19:14 : 14 Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD.
  • Isa 35:3 : 3 Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees.
  • Isa 57:14 : 14 And it will be said: 'Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.'
  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and placed the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I really let myself be consulted by them?
  • Ezek 44:12 : 12 Because they served them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to stumble into iniquity, therefore I have lifted My hand against them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment.
  • Matt 18:6-7 : 6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7 Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
  • Luke 17:1-2 : 1 Jesus said to his disciples, 'It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!' 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

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  • 1 Cor 8:10-13
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    10For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols?

    11So the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

    12When you sin in this way against your brothers and sisters and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

    13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-8
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    7However, not everyone knows this. Some, being accustomed to idols until now, eat it as if it were truly food offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

  • Rom 14:19-22
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    19So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things are indeed clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother or sister to stumble, to be offended, or to be weakened.

    22Do you have faith? Keep it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

  • Rom 14:13
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    13Therefore, let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.

  • Rom 14:15-16
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    15If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.

    16Therefore, do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
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    27If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is placed before you without raising questions of conscience.

    28But if someone says to you, 'This has been offered in sacrifice,' then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.

    29I do not mean your own conscience, but that of the other person's. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

  • Rom 14:1-3
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    1Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but do not engage in disputes over opinions.

    2One person believes they may eat anything, while someone who is weak eats only vegetables.

    3The one who eats must not look down on the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, for God has accepted them.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12So then, let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

  • Rom 15:1
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    1We who are strong ought to bear with the weaknesses of those who are weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • 1 Cor 8:1-2
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    1Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

    2If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
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    31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

    32Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks, or the church of God.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

  • 1 Cor 10:23
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    23Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13Our desire is not for others to be relieved while you are burdened, but for equality.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3We give no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others have this right to receive from you, shouldn’t we have it even more? But we have not used this right. Instead, we endure all things so that we will not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

  • 2 Cor 11:29
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17Therefore, beloved, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own steadfastness.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20We are taking this precaution so that no one will criticize us regarding this generous gift we are administering.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

  • Heb 13:9
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    9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by God’s grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which have not benefited those who have followed them.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8Even if I boast a little more about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    4Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we would be ashamed—not to mention you—in this confidence of boasting.

  • Gal 5:15
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    15But if you bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4This arose because of false brothers who were secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so they might bring us into bondage.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.

  • 2 Cor 13:9
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    9We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is that you may be fully restored.

  • 1 Cor 9:22
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    22To the weak, I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all possible means I might save some.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

  • Acts 15:29
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    29that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27Rather, I discipline my body and bring it under control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.