1 Corinthians 8:9

Webster's Bible (1833)

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

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  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
  • 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 14:1-2 : 1 Now receive 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.
  • Rom 14:13-15 : 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. 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 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 10:24 : 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 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 : 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
  • 1 Cor 10:29 : 29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
  • 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
  • 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • Lev 19:14 : 14 "'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
  • Isa 35:3 : 3 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
  • Isa 57:14 : 14 He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
  • Ezek 44:12 : 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.
  • Matt 18:6-7 : 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea. 7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Luke 17:1-2 : 1 He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him 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, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

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    10For 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?

    11And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

    12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

    13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-8
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    7However, 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.

    8But 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.

  • Rom 14:19-22
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    19So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

    20Don'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.

    21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

    22Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.

  • Rom 14:13
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    13Therefore 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 14:15-16
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    15Yet 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.

    16Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
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    27But 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.

    28But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

    29Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

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    1Now receive one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

    2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

    3Don'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 received him.

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    12Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

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

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

    2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.

  • 1 Cor 10:31-32
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    31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

    32Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

  • Gal 5:13
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    13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

  • 1 Cor 10:23
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    23"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

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    3We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.

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    16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

  • 2 Cor 11:29
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    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

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    17You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

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

  • Heb 13:9
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    9Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  • 2 Cor 9:4
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    4so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  • Gal 5:15
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    15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

  • Gal 2:4
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    4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 2 Cor 13:9
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    9For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

  • 1 Cor 9:22
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    22To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • Acts 15:29
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    29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

  • 1 Cor 9:27
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    27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.