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1 Corinthians 8:9

New American Bible - revised edition

But make sure that this liberty of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.

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Strengthen hands that are feeble, make firm knees that are weak,

And I say: Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstacle from my people’s way.

Son of man, these men keep the memory of their idols alive in their hearts, setting the stumbling block of their sin before them. Should I allow myself to be consulted by them?

Because they used to serve them before their idols, thus becoming a stumbling block to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn an oath against them, says the Lord God, and they will bear the consequences of their sin.

You shall not insult the deaf, or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the Lord.

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father. [

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

No one should seek his own advantage, but that of his neighbor.

But if someone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice,” do not eat it on account of the one who called attention to it and on account of conscience;

I mean not your own conscience, but the other’s. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

Avoid giving offense, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,

If someone sees you, with your knowledge, reclining at table in the temple of an idol, may not his conscience too, weak as it is, be “built up” to eat the meat sacrificed to idols?

When you sin in this way against your brothers and wound their consciences, weak as they are, you are sinning against Christ.

To the weak I became weak, to win over the weak. I have become all things to all, to save at least some.

To my shame I say that we were too weak! But what anyone dares to boast of (I am speaking in foolishness) I also dare.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led to sin, and I am not indignant? Paul’s Boast: His Weakness.

We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry;

For you were called for freedom, brothers. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love.

See to it that no one captivate you with an empty, seductive philosophy according to human tradition, according to the elemental powers of the world and not according to Christ. Sovereign Role of Christ.

Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God.

They promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him.

Yet I have a few things against you. You have some people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites: to eat food sacrificed to idols and to play the harlot.




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