1 Corinthians 8:11
And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
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- Rom 14:15 : 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
- 1 Cor 8:13 : 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
- 1 Cor 10:33-11:1 : 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved. 1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
- Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
- Rom 15:1-3 : 1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up. 3 For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
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- 1 Cor 8:7-104 verses86%
7 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
- 1 Cor 8:12-132 verses83%
12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
- Rom 14:15-162 verses80%
15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
16 Then don't let your good be slandered,
- Rom 14:20-212 verses71%
20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
- 1 Cor 8:1-33 verses71%
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
- 1 Cor 11:29-302 verses69%
29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.
30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
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10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
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13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.
- Rom 14:1-33 verses68%
1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
3 Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
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29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?
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29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
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1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- 2 Cor 5:14-163 verses67%
14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
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4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
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34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
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18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
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11 knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.
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27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
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7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
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12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
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16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
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6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
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17 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
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9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
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10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
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9 For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
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6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
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32 But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
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13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
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31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
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3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
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7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
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17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
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27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.