1 Corinthians 8:13

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Summary

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

If meat

General references

Bible References

If meat

All [things] are permitted for me, but not all [things] are profitable. All [things] are permitted for me, but I will not be controlled by anything.

If others share this right over you, do we not [do so] even more? Yet we have not made use of this right, but we endure all [things], in order that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

just as I also please all [people] in all [things], not seeking my own benefit, but the [benefit] of the many, in order that they may be saved.

Become imitators of me, just as I also [am] of Christ.

[it] does not behave dishonorably, [it] {is not selfish}, [it] does not become angry, [it] does not keep a record of wrongs,

[It is] good not to eat meat or to drink wine or [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.

Who is weak, and [I am] not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn [with indignation]?

And {just as} Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, people corrupted in mind, disqualified concerning the faith.

General references

Any dead body or mangled carcass from the birds or from the animals, the priests shall not eat."

[We are] giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found [with it],

each of you not looking out for {your own interests}, but also each of you [for] {the interests} of others.

Abstain from every form of evil.