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1 Corinthians 8:9

James Moffatt - New Testament

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

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Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God.

promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

Each of us must consult his neighbour's interests, not his own.

Put no stumbling-block in the way of Jews or Greeks or the church of God.

to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

By sinning against the brotherhood in this way and wounding their weaker consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

Suppose anyone sees you, a person of enlightened mind, reclining at meat inside an idol's temple; will that really 'fortify his weak conscience'? Will it not embolden him to violate his scruples of conscience by eating food that has been offered to idols?

But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice.

I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!).

his conscience, I mean, not your own; for why should one's own freedom be called in question by someone else's conscience?

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, their angels in heaven always look on the face of my Father in heaven.

But if someone tells you, 'This was sacrificial meat,' then do not eat it; you must consider the man who told you, and also take conscience into account —

I put no obstacle in the path of any, so that my ministry may not be discredited;

Who is weak, and I do not feel his weakness? Whose faith is hurt, and I am not aglow with indignation?

Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.




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