1 Corinthians 8:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance 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 Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
• Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat. 21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
• Rom 14:1-2 : 1 Exhortation to Mutual Forbearance Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions. 2 One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.
• Rom 14:13-15 : 13 Exhortation for the Strong not to Destroy the Weak Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister. 14 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean. 15 For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
• 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.
• 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.
• 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be“strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?
• 1 Cor 8:12 : 12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
• 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.
• 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.
• Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
• 1 Cor 10:29 : 29 I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,
• 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 (To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about(I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.
• Rom 15:1 : 1 Exhortation for the Strong to Help the Weak But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.
• Lev 19:14 : 14 You must not curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block in front of a blind person. You must fear your God; I am the LORD.
• Isa 35:3 : 3 Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake!
• Isa 57:14 : 14 He says,“Build it! Build it! Clear a way! Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”
• Ezek 14:3 : 3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?
• Ezek 44:12 : 12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow concerning them, declares the Sovereign LORD, that they will be responsible for their sin.
• Matt 18:6-7 : 6 “But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea. 7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.
• Matt 18:10 : 10 The Parable of the Lost Sheep“See that you do not disdain 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 Sin, Forgiveness, Faith, and Service Jesus said to his disciples,“Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! 2 It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.