1 Corinthians 10:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹Conscience , I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

1 Corinthians 10:29 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
Romans 14:15-21
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. …
1 Corinthians 8:9-13
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. …
2 Corinthians 8:21
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
1 Corinthians 10:32
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

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Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

29. Conscience ... of the other--the weak brother introduced in 1Co 10:28. for why is my liberty judged off another man’s conscience?--Paul passes to the first person, to teach his converts by putting himself as it were in their position. The Greek terms for “the other” and “another” are distinct. “The other” is the one with whom Paul’s and his Corinthian converts’ concern is; “another” is any oth…