Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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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