Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
1 Corinthians 8:13 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore, if [my eating a] food is a cause of my brother's falling or of hindering [his spiritual advancement], I will not eat [such] flesh forever, lest I cause my brother to be tripped up and fall and to be offended. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble. Common English Bible This is why, if food causes the downfall of my brother or sister, I won’t eat meat ever again, or else I may cause my brother or sister to fall. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, if food leads my brother to sin, I will never eat meat, lest I lead my brother to sin. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother. |
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.