But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.*
1 Corinthians 8:13 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble. 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, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.*
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
*All things are lawful for me,* but not all things are expedient. *All things are lawful for me,* but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Messiah.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?
We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,