1 Corinthians 8:13

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 14:21 : 21 [It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
  • 1 Cor 13:5 : 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
  • 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
  • 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 ¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
  • 1 Cor 9:12 : 12 If others be partakers of [this] power over you, [are] not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 ¶ For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you].
  • 1 Cor 10:33-11:1 : 33 Even as I please all [men] in all [things], not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved. 1 ¶ Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.
  • 2 Tim 3:8-9 : 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all [men], as theirs also was.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Rom 14:19-23
    5 verses
    83%

    19Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

    20For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence.

    21[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

    22Hast thou faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Happy [is] he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

    23And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.

  • Rom 14:13-16
    4 verses
    83%

    13Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.

    14I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.

    15But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

    16Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

  • 1 Cor 8:7-12
    6 verses
    82%

    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.

    8But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

    9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

    10For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

    11And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

    12But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

    32Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
    3 verses
    73%

    27If any of them that believe not bid you [to a feast], and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

    28But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:

    29Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another [man's] conscience?

  • Rom 14:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1¶ Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to doubtful disputations.

    2For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

    3Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
    71%

    25Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

  • 1 Cor 6:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

    13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • 2 Cor 11:29
    71%

    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

  • 2 Cor 6:3
    71%

    3Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

  • Gal 5:13
    70%

    13¶ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
    70%

    13For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

  • Gal 5:11
    70%

    11And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

  • Acts 24:16
    70%

    16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and [toward] men.

  • 1 Cor 11:33-34
    2 verses
    70%

    33Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

    34And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

  • Rom 14:10
    70%

    10But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 10:23
    69%

    23¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

  • Gal 5:15
    69%

    15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

  • Gal 2:18
    69%

    18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

  • 1 Cor 13:3
    69%

    3And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

  • 1 John 2:10
    69%

    10He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
    68%

    11But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

  • Rom 15:1
    68%

    1¶ We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • 1 Cor 9:27
    68%

    27But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

  • Matt 18:8
    68%

    8‹Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast› [them] ‹from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.›

  • Rom 14:6
    68%

    6He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

  • Luke 17:2
    68%

    2‹It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.›

  • John 16:1
    68%

    1¶ ‹These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.›

  • Matt 5:23
    68%

    23‹Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;›

  • 2 Cor 11:12
    68%

    12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • Rom 8:12
    67%

    12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.