1 Corinthians 10:29 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

²⁹ I do not say 'your' scruples, but 'his.' For why should the freedom that I claim be condemned by the scruples of another?

¹⁵ If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died! ¹⁶ Do not let what is right for you become a matter of reproach. ¹⁷ For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ He who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of his fellow men. ¹⁹ Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character. ²⁰ Do not undo God's work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is 'clean,' yet, if a man eats so as to put a stumbling- block in the way of others, he does wrong. ²¹ The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

⁹ But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died! ¹² In this way, by sinning against your Brothers and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, if what I eat makes my Brother fall, rather than make my Brother fall, I will never eat meat again.

¹⁹ Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone's slave.

³² Do not cause offence either to Jews or Greeks or to the Church of God;

²¹ For we are trying to make arrangements which shall be right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men.

²² Shun every form of evil.