1 Corinthians 8:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

1 Corinthians 8:9 —

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Cross-References

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Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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 Peter 2:16
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
2 Peter 2:19
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.
1 Corinthians 10:24
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.

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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. 9)

9. this liberty of yours--the watchword for lax Corinthians. The very indifference of meats, which I concede, is the reason why ye should “take heed” not to tempt weak brethren to act against their conscience (which constitutes sin, Ro 14:22, 23).