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1 Corinthians 8:9

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

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For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty: only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh, but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.

Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's.

Be without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the church of God:

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

Now when you sin thus against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?

But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat, and to commit fornication:

I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.

Conscience, I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

NOW we that are stronger, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses in their hearts, and have set up before their face the stumbling-block of their iniquity: and shall I answer when they inquire of me?

And I will say: Make a way, give free passage. Turn out of the path. Take away the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people.

Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.

Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.

See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity:

But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols, do not eat of it for his sake that told it, and for conscience' sake.

Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed:

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?

Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy, and vain deceit; according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ:




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