1 Corinthians 8:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Only be careful that this power of choice (this permission and liberty to do as you please) which is yours, does not [somehow] become a hindrance (cause of stumbling) to the weak or overscrupulous [giving them an impulse to sin].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

Common English Bible

⁹ But watch out or else this freedom of yours might be a problem for those who are weak.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ But be careful not to let your liberty become a cause of sin to those who are weak.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:9 Cross References

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees.

Isaiah 57:14

It shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way; remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”

Ezekiel 14:3

Mortal, these men have taken their idols into their hearts and placed their iniquity as a stumbling block before them; shall I let myself be consulted by them?

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they ministered to them before their idols and made the house of Israel stumble into iniquity, therefore I have sworn concerning them, says the Lord God, that they shall bear their punishment.

Leviticus 19:14

You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind; you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Matthew 18:10

“Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven.

Romans 15:1

We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 10:24

Do not seek your own advantage but that of the other.

1 Corinthians 10:28

But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who informed you and for the sake of conscience—

1 Corinthians 10:29

I mean the other’s conscience, not your own. For why should my freedom be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience?

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

1 Corinthians 8:10

For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:12

But when you thus sin against brothers and sisters and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:22

To the weak I became weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.

2 Corinthians 11:21

To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.

2 Corinthians 11:29

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant?

2 Corinthians 6:3

We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another.

Colossians 2:8

Watch out that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

1 Peter 2:16

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.

Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.