Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But take heed that your liberty cause not the weak to fall.
New American Standard Bible
But
King James Version
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Holman Bible
But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block
International Standard Version
But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block for those who are weak.
A Conservative Version
But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.
American Standard Version
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
Amplified
Only be careful that this liberty of yours [this power to choose] does not somehow become a stumbling block [that is, a temptation to sin] to the weak [in conscience].
An Understandable Version
But pay attention [to this], so that somehow this liberty of yours [i.e., to eat whatever you want to] does not become an occasion over which weak people could fall [away from God].
Anderson New Testament
But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.
Bible in Basic English
But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.
Common New Testament
But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but take care that this liberty of yours does not prove a scandal to the weak.
Darby Translation
But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
Godbey New Testament
See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak.
Goodspeed New Testament
But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous.
John Wesley New Testament
But take heed, lest by any means this your liberty become a stumbling-block to the weak.
Julia Smith Translation
And see ye lest this your power be a stumble to the weak.
King James 2000
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to them that are weak.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.
Modern King James verseion
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.
Moffatt New Testament
But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.
Montgomery New Testament
But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.
NET Bible
But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.
New Heart English Bible
But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
Noyes New Testament
But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
Sawyer New Testament
But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.
The Emphasized Bible
But be taking heed, lest, by any means, your right, itself, become, an occasion of stumbling, unto the weak;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But take heed that this power of yours become not an occasion of stumbling to the weak.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.
Webster
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours should become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.
Weymouth New Testament
But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.
Williams New Testament
But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.
World English Bible
But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
Worrell New Testament
But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.
Worsley New Testament
But see that this liberty of yours be not by any means a stumbling-block to the weak.
Youngs Literal Translation
but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,
Themes
Evil » Appearance of, to be avoided
Liberty » The abuse of, warnings against
Christian Liberty » Saints should » Not offend others by
Offence » Saints should » Be cautious of giving
Offence » Saints should » Not let their liberty occasion, to others
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 8:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Concerning Food Sacrificed To Idols
8 Meat maketh us not acceptable to God: Neither if we eat are we the better: Neither if we eat not are we the worse. 9 But take heed that your liberty cause not the weak to fall. 10 For if some man see thee, which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the idol's temple shall not the conscience of him which is weak be boldened to eat those things which are offered unto the idol?
Cross References
Galatians 5:13
Brethren, ye were called into liberty, only let not your liberty be an occasion unto the flesh but in love serve one another.
Romans 14:20-21
Destroy not the work of God for a little meat's sake. All things are pure: but it is evil for that man, which eateth with hurt of his conscience.
Romans 14:1-2
Him that is weak in the faith, receive unto you not in disputing and troubling his conscience. ]
Romans 14:13-15
Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more. But judge this, rather: that no man put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
1 Corinthians 8:10
For if some man see thee, which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the idol's temple shall not the conscience of him which is weak be boldened to eat those things which are offered unto the idol?
1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no man seek his own profit: but let every man seek another's wealth.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness: but even as the servants of God.
Leviticus 19:14
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, neither put a stumbling block before the blind: but shalt fear thy God. I am the LORD.
Isaiah 35:3
And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees.
Isaiah 57:14
And therefore thus he sayeth, "Make ready, make ready, and clean the street, take up what ye can out of the way that leadeth to my people."
Ezekiel 14:3
"Thou son of man, these men bear their idols in their hearts, and go purposely upon the stumbling block of their own wickedness: how dare they then ask counsel at me?
Ezekiel 44:12
seeing the service that they do them, is before their Idols, and cause the house of Israel to stumble through wickedness? For the which cause I have plucked out mine hand over them, sayeth the LORD God, so that now they must bear their own iniquity,
Matthew 18:6-7
But whosoever offend one of these little ones, which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Matthew 18:10
See that ye despise not one of these little ones. For I say unto you, that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my father, which is in heaven.
Luke 17:1-2
Then said he to the disciples, "It cannot be avoided, but that offenses will come. Nevertheless, woe be to him through whom they come.
Romans 15:1
We which are strong ought to bear the frailness of them which are weak, and not to stand in our own conceits.
1 Corinthians 8:12
When ye sin so against the brethren and wound their weak consciences, ye sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak became I as weak, to win the weak. In all thing I fashioned myself to all men, to save, at the leastway, some.
1 Corinthians 10:29
Conscience I say, not thine: but the conscience of that other. For why should my liberty be judged of another man's conscience?
1 Corinthians 10:32
See that ye give none occasion of evil: neither to the Jews, nor yet to the gentiles, neither to the congregation of God.
2 Corinthians 11:21
I speak as concerning rebuke, as though we had been weak. Howbeit, whereinsoever any man dare be bold - I speak foolishly - I dare be bold also.
2 Peter 2:19
They promise them liberty, and are themselves the bondservants of corruption. For of whomsoever a man is overcome, unto the same is he in bondage.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast, there, they that maintain the doctrine of Balaam, which taught in Balak to put occasion of sin before the children of Israel, that they should eat of meat dedicated unto idols, and to commit fornication.