1 Corinthians 8:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

📖 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 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
• Rom 14:20-21 : 20 for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, `are' pure, but evil `is' to the man who is eating through stumbling. 21 Right `it is' not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to `do anything' in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.
• Rom 14:1-2 : 1 And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings; 2 one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;
• Rom 14:13-15 : 13 no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence. 14 I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is' unclean; 15 and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.
• 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 let no one seek his own -- but each another's.
• 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
• 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,
• 1 Cor 8:12 : 12 and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;
• 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.
• 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,
• Rev 2:14 : 14 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;
• 1 Cor 10:29 : 29 and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why `is it' that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?
• 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;
• 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say `it' -- I also am bold.
• Rom 15:1 : 1 And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;
• Lev 19:14 : 14 `Thou dost not revile the deaf; and before the blind thou dost not put a stumbling block; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.
• Isa 35:3 : 3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.
• Isa 57:14 : 14 And he hath said, `Raise up, raise up, prepare a way, Lift a stumbling-block out of the way of My people.'
• Ezek 14:3 : 3 `Son of man, these men have caused their idols to go up on their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have put over-against their faces; am I inquired of at all by them?
• Ezek 44:12 : 12 Because that they serve them before their idols, and have been to the house of Israel for a stumbling-block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah -- and they have borne their iniquity.
• Matt 18:6-7 : 6 and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea. 7 `Wo to the world from the stumbling-blocks! for there is a necessity for the stumbling-blocks to come, but wo to that man through whom the stumbling-block doth come!
• Matt 18:10 : 10 `Beware! -- ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,
• Luke 17:1-2 : 1 And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo `to him' through whom they come; 2 it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.