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1 Corinthians 8

1 Cor. 8:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
take heed
blepo (Greek #991)
to look at (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: behold, beware, lie, look (on, to), perceive, regard, see, sight, take heed. Compare 3700.
Pronounce: blep'-o
Origin: a primary verb
lest by any means
mepos (Greek #3381)
lest somehow
KJV usage: lest (by any means, by some means, haply, perhaps).
Pronounce: may'-pos
Origin: μή πως (may tis) from 3361 and 4458
this
houtos (Greek #3778)
the he (she or it), i.e. this or that (often with article repeated)
KJV usage: he (it was that), hereof, it, she, such as, the same, these, they, this (man, same, woman), which, who.
Pronounce: hoo'-tos
Origin: οὗτοι (hoo'-toy), nominative feminine singular αὕτη (how'-tay), and nominative feminine plural αὕται (how'-tahee) from the article 3588 and 846
μliberty
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
exousia (Greek #1849)
privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence
KJV usage: authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength.
Pronounce: ex-oo-see'-ah
Origin: from 1832 (in the sense of ability)
p of yours
humon (Greek #5216)
of (from or concerning) you
KJV usage: ye, you, your (own, -selves).
Pronounce: hoo-mone'
Origin: genitive case of 5210
become
ginomai (Greek #1096)
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
KJV usage: arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Pronounce: ghin'-om-ahee
Origin: a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb
a stumblingblock
proskomma (Greek #4348)
a stub, i.e. (figuratively) occasion of apostasy
KJV usage: offence, stumbling(-block, (-stone)).
Pronounce: pros'-kom-mah
Origin: from 4350
to them
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
that are weak
astheneo (Greek #770)
to be feeble (in any sense)
KJV usage: be diseased, impotent folk (man), (be) sick, (be, be made) weak.
Pronounce: as-then-eh'-o
Origin: from 772
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Rom. 14:13,20• 13Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.
 20For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so. (Rom. 14:13,20)
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Gal. 5:13• 13For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another. (Gal. 5:13)
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or, power.

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Liberty,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1 Cor. 8:10• 10For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol? (1 Cor. 8:10)
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1 Cor. 10:24,29• 24Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other.
 29but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience? (1 Cor. 10:24,29)
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Matt. 18:6‑7,10• 6But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were profitable for him that a great millstone had been hanged upon his neck and he be sunk in the depths of the sea.
 7Woe to the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come; yet woe to that man by whom the offence comes!
 10See that ye do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in the heavens continually behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens. (Matt. 18:6‑7,10)
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Luke 17:1‑2• 1And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe to him by whom they come!
 2It would be more profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones. (Luke 17:1‑2)
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Rom. 14:20‑21• 20For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.
 21It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak. (Rom. 14:20‑21)
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Gal. 5:13• 13For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another. (Gal. 5:13)
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1 Peter 2:16• 16as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen. (1 Peter 2:16)
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2 Peter 2:19• 19promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery. (2 Peter 2:19)
liberty.
or, power.
a stumbling-block.
1 Cor. 10:32• 32Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God. (1 Cor. 10:32)
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Lev. 19:14• 14Thou shalt not revile a deaf person, and thou shalt not put a stumbling-block before a blind one; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah. (Lev. 19:14)
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Isa. 57:14• 14And it shall be said, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people. (Isa. 57:14)
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Ezek. 14:3• 3Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? (Ezek. 14:3)
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Ezek. 44:12• 12Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and were unto the house of Israel a stumbling-block of iniquity; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord Jehovah, that they shall bear their iniquity. (Ezek. 44:12)
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Rom. 14:13‑15,20• 13Let us no longer therefore judge one another; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block or a fall-trap before his brother.
 14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him who reckons anything to be unclean, to that man it is unclean.
 15For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died.
 20For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so. (Rom. 14:13‑15,20)
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Gal. 5:13• 13For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another. (Gal. 5:13)
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Rev. 2:14• 14But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a snare before the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication. (Rev. 2:14)
weak.
1 Cor. 8:12• 12Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. (1 Cor. 8:12)
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1 Cor. 9:22• 22I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some. (1 Cor. 9:22)
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Isa. 35:3• 3Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the tottering knees. (Isa. 35:3)
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Rom. 14:1‑2• 1Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to the determining of questions of reasoning.
 2One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs. (Rom. 14:1‑2)
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Rom. 15:1• 1But *we* ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. (Rom. 15:1)
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2 Cor. 11:21• 21I speak as to dishonour, as though *we* had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) *I* also am daring. (2 Cor. 11:21)
• They were still perhaps, in spite of himself, something to him. He had conscience of the idol, and if he ate that which had been offered to it, it was not to him simply that which God had given for food. The idea of the existence of a real and powerful being had a place in his heart, and thus his conscience was defiled. Now they were not better in God’s sight for having eaten, and by eating they had put a stumbling block in their brother’s way, and, so far as the act of those who had full light was concerned, had ruined him by defiling his conscience and estranging him from God in unfaithfulness. (“1 Corinthians 8” by J.N. Darby)
• There is a solemn fact which none can afford to forget as to both power and liberty—that without responsibility nothing is more ruinous than either. Herein lay the sad failure of these saints. (“1 Corinthians 8” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But see lest anywise this your rightc to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "liberty," exousia. Title in a man's own conscience is the sense. see Note, Matt. 10.1.

W. Kelly Translation

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But see lest in any wise this your title become a stumbling-block to the weak.