1 Corinthians 8:13
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Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

if meat.

1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power of any.

1 Corinthians 9:12,19-23 If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:33 As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

Romans 14:21 It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?

2 Timothy 3:8,9 Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. . . .

Context
Food Sacrificed to Idols
12Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.
Cross References
Matthew 17:27


Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

Romans 14:13
Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother's way.

Romans 14:21
It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

1 Corinthians 10:32
Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God:

2 Corinthians 6:3
Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed.

2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?

Lexicon
Therefore,
Διόπερ (Dioper)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1355: Wherefore (emphatically), for which very reason. From dio and per; on which very account.

if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

[what I eat]
βρῶμα (brōma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 1033: Food of any kind. From the base of bibrosko; food, especially articles allowed or forbidden by the Jewish law.

causes
σκανδαλίζει (skandalizei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 4624: From skandalon; to entrap, i.e. Trip up (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure).

my
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

brother {to stumble},
ἀδελφόν (adelphon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

I will never eat
φάγω (phagō)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 5315: A primary verb; to eat.

meat
κρέα (krea)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 2907: Flesh; plur: pieces of flesh, kinds of flesh. Perhaps a primary word; meat.

[again],
αἰῶνα (aiōna)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 165: From the same as aei; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity; by implication, the world; specially a Messianic period.

so that
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

I will not cause
σκανδαλίσω (skandalisō)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 4624: From skandalon; to entrap, i.e. Trip up (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure).

[him] {to stumble}.
ἀδελφόν (adelphon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.


Additional Translations
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

Therefore, if food snares my brother, never shall not I eat meat to the age, so that I might not snare my brother.

Why, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world stands, lest I make my brother to offend.

Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

Wherefore, if meat maketh my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I make not my brother to stumble.

Wherefore, if food maketh my brother to fall into sin, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to fall into sin.

Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food, for fear I should cause my brother to fall.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.
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