Verse 9

But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

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  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For, brethren, you have been called to freedom; only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • Rom 14:20-21 : 20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense. 21 It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
  • Rom 14:1-2 : 1 Accept the one who is weak in faith, but not to engage in contentious debates. 2 For one believes he may eat all things, but another, who is weak, eats only herbs.
  • Rom 14:13-15 : 13 Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this instead: that no one puts a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. 14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 But if your brother is grieved with your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
  • 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 Let no one seek his own good, but each one the good of others.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
  • 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?
  • 1 Cor 8:12 : 12 But when you sin against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
  • 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
  • 1 Cor 10:29 : 29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why should my liberty be judged by another man's conscience?
  • 1 Cor 10:32 : 32 Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
  • 2 Cor 11:21 : 21 I speak concerning reproach, as though we were weak. But in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 We who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • Lev 19:14 : 14 You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I am the LORD.
  • Isa 35:3 : 3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
  • Isa 57:14 : 14 And shall say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces: should I be inquired of at all by them?
  • Ezek 44:12 : 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
  • Matt 18:6-7 : 6 But whoever offends one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him that a millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7 Woe to the world because of offenses! For it must be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I say to you, That in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Luke 17:1-2 : 1 Then he said to the disciples, It is inevitable that offenses will come: but woe to him through whom they come! 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.