13Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
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It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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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…
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