‘But, so we won’t offend them, go to the sea, cast in a fish hook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth you’ll find a coin. Take it and give it to them for me and you.’
1 Corinthians 8:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Therefore, if food causes my brother or sister to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won’t cause my brother or sister to fall. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore, if [my eating a] food is a cause of my brother's falling or of hindering [his spiritual advancement], I will not eat [such] flesh forever, lest I cause my brother to be tripped up and fall and to be offended. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble. Common English Bible This is why, if food causes the downfall of my brother or sister, I won’t eat meat ever again, or else I may cause my brother or sister to fall. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, if food leads my brother to sin, I will never eat meat, lest I lead my brother to sin. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother. |
‘But, so we won’t offend them, go to the sea, cast in a fish hook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth you’ll find a coin. Take it and give it to them for me and you.’
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
Therefore, let us no longer judge one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in the way of your brother or sister.
It is a good thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.
just as I also try to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs.
‘Everything is permissible for me,’ but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible for me,’ but I will not be mastered by anything.
If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right; instead, we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
We are not giving anyone an occasion for offence, so that the ministry will not be blamed.