But (A)take care that this [a]freedom of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the (B)weak. 10 For if someone sees you, the one who has (C)knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will his conscience, if he is weak, not be strengthened to eat (D)things sacrificed to idols? 11 For through (E)your knowledge the one who is weak (F)is ruined, the brother or sister for whose sake Christ died. 12 (G)And so, by sinning against the brothers and sisters and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin (H)against Christ. 13 Therefore, (I)if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to sin.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 8:9 Lit right

But (A)beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become (B)a [a]stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not (C)the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? 11 And (D)because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But (E)when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, (F)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 8:9 cause of offense