9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
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For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. …
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
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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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