Verse 9

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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 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.
  • 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 a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
  • 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 the weak hands, and make firm 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.