However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”
1 Corinthians 8:13 - Revised Standard Version Therefore, if food is a cause of my brother's falling, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother 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. |
However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”
but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from unchastity and from what is strangled and from blood.
Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
it is right not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother stumble.
just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.
If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we still more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
We put no obstacle in any one's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,