1 Corinthians 8:9
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But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak.

take.

1 Corinthians 8:10 For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 10:24,29 Let no man seek his own, but that which is another's. . . .

Matthew 18:6,7,10 But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. . . .

Luke 17:1,2 And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that scandals should not come. But woe to him through whom they come! . . .

Romans 14:20,21 Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. . . .

Galatians 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

1 Peter 2:16 As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

2 Peter 2:19 Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.

liberty.

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

Leviticus 19:14 Thou shalt not speak evil of the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind: but thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, because I am the Lord.

Isaiah 57:14 And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.

Ezekiel 14:3 Son of man, these men have placed their uncleannesses in their hearts, and have set up before their face the stumblingblock of their iniquity: and shall I answer when they inquire of me?

Ezekiel 44:12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and were a stumblingblock of iniquity to the house of Israel: therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity:

Romans 14:13-15,20 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. . . .

Galatians 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

Revelation 2:14 But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication.

weak.

1 Corinthians 8:12 Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.

Romans 14:1,2 Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts. . . .

Romans 15:1 Now, we that are stronger ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.

2 Corinthians 11:21 I seek according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.

Context
Food Sacrificed to Idols
8But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less. 9But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak. 10For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?…
Cross References
Romans 14:1
Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts.

Romans 14:2
For one believeth that he may eat all things: but he that is weak, let him eat herbs.

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 14:20
Destroy not the work of God for meat. All things indeed are clean: but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

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 8:10
For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 10:28
But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience' sake.

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?

Galatians 5:13
For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty. Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the spirit serve one another.

Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ.

Lexicon
Be careful,
Βλέπετε (Blepete)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 991: (primarily physical), I look, see, perceive, discern. A primary verb; to look at.

however,
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

[that]
αὕτη (hautē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3778: This; he, she, it.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

freedom
ἐξουσία (exousia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 1849: From exesti; privilege, i.e. force, capacity, competency, freedom, or mastery, delegated influence.

does not become
γένηται (genētai)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

a stumbling block
πρόσκομμα (proskomma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 4348: A stumbling-block, an occasion for falling, a moral embarrassment. From proskopto; a stub, i.e. occasion of apostasy.

to the
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

weak.
ἀσθενέσιν (asthenesin)
Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 772: (lit: not strong), (a) weak (physically, or morally), (b) infirm, sick. Strengthless.


Additional Translations
Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

But be careful, lest somehow this right of yours becomes an occasion of stumbling to those being weak.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to them that are weak.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

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

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours should become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.

But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,
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