29Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
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For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. …
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. …
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-33)In this passage the apostle shows in what instances, notwithstanding, Christians might lawfully eat what had been sacrificed to idols. They must not eat it out of religious respect to the idol, nor go into his temple, and hold a feast there, upon what they knew was an idol-sacrifice; nor perhaps out of the temple, if they knew it was a feast held upon a sacrifice, but there were cases wherein they…
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