(A)One person has faith that he may eat all things, but the one who is (B)weak eats only vegetables.

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One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.(A)

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Self-denial in behalf of Others

15 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of (A)those without strength, and not just please ourselves.

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15 We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak(A) and not to please ourselves.

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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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:9 Lit right

Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block(A) to the weak.(B) 10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?(C) 11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed(D) by your knowledge. 12 When you sin against them(E) in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.(F) 13 Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.(G)

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22 To the (A)weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become (B)all things to all people, (C)so that I may by all means save some.

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22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak.(A) I have become all things to all people(B) so that by all possible means I might save some.(C)

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