1 Corinthians 8:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

1 Corinthians 8:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 14:15
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Romans 15:1-3
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. …
1 Corinthians 8:13
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Romans 14:20-21
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. …
1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-13)

The apostle, having granted, and indeed confirmed, the opinion of some among the Corinthians, that idols were nothing, proceeds now to show them that their inference from this assumption was not just, namely, that therefore they might go into the idol-temple, and eat of the sacrifices, and feast there with their heathen neighbours. He does not indeed here so much insist upon the unlawfulness of th…

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

(vv. 11)

11. shall ... perish--The oldest manuscripts read “perisheth.” A single act seemingly unimportant may produce everlasting consequences. The weak brother loses his faith, and if he do not recover it, his salvation [Bengel] (Ro 14:23). for whom Christ died--and for whose sake we too ought to be willing to die (1Jo 3:16). And yet professing Christians at Corinth virtually tempted their brethren to th…