1 Corinthians 8:9 Cross References - Williams

⁹ But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.

⁶ But whoever leads one of these little ones, who believe in me, to do wrong, had better have a great millstone hung around his neck to sink him to the bottom of the sea. ⁷ A curse on the world for such influences to do wrong! For they must come, but a curse on the man from whom these influences come!

¹⁰ "Be careful not to look with scorn on a single one of these little children, for I tell you that in heaven their angels have uninterrupted access to my Father in heaven.

¹ Now He said to His disciples: "It is inevitable that snares to evil will come, but a curse be on the man through whom they come! ² It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck, and he be hurled into the sea, than for him to ensnare one of these lowly ones.

¹ Make it your practice to receive into full Christian fellowship people who are overscrupulous, but not to criticize their views. ² One man believes that he can eat anything; another who is overscrupulous eats nothing but vegetables.

¹³ Then let us stop criticizing one another; instead, do this, determine to stop putting stumbling blocks or hindrances in your brother's way. ¹⁴ I know, and through my union with the Lord Jesus I have a clear conviction, that nothing is unclean in itself; that a thing is unclean only to the person who thinks it unclean. ¹⁵ For if your brother is hurt because of the food you eat, you are not living by the standard of love. Stop ruining, by what you eat, the man for whom Christ died.

²⁰ Stop undoing the work of God just for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything when it makes another stumble. ²¹ The right thing to do is not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything else, that makes your brother stumble.

¹ It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

¹⁰ For if somebody sees you, who have an intelligent view of this matter, partaking of a meal in an idol's temple, will he not be emboldened, with his overscrupulous conscience, to eat the food which has been sacrificed to an idol?

¹² Now if in such a way you sin against your brothers and wound their overscrupulous consciences, you are actually sinning against Christ.

²² To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, to win the overscrupulous; yes, I have become everything to everybody, in order by all means to save some of them.

²⁴ No one should always be looking after his own welfare, but also that of his neighbor.

²⁹ I mean his conscience, not yours. Why then should my personal freedom be limited by another's conscience?

³² Stop being stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

²¹ I am ashamed to say that I was, as it were, so weak in the matter. And yet in whatever respect anyone else is daring to boast -- I am talking like a fool -- I too will dare to boast.

¹³ For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

¹⁶ Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.

¹⁹ promising them freedom, though they are slaves of destruction themselves; for a man is the slave of anything that conquers him.

¹⁴ Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some who are clinging to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to set a trap for the children of Israel, to entice them to eat the meat that had been sacrificed to idols and to commit immoral practices.