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1 Corinthians 8:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

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Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.

And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?

Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.

Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.

We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.

But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:

Right and wrong, I say, not for you, but for the other man; for the fact that I am free is not dependent on another man's sense of right or wrong.

Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.

For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward I am talking like a foolish person, I will do the same.

Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

Giving no cause for trouble in anything, so that no one may be able to say anything against our work;

Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.




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