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Love Guides Your Liberty
Commentators stress that the reason to abstain from certain food is not for your own sake, but for the sake of the other person's conscience. Your knowledge that the food is permissible doesn't change, but love for another person should guide how you exercise your freedom. As Charles Spurgeon puts it, you don't use your freedom if it harms your brother.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 10:29
18th Century
Theologian
Conscience, I say, not thine own. I know that you may have no scruples on the subject. I do not mean that, for you, this needs to be a mat…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 10:29
For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? (ινα τ γαρ η ελευθερια μου κρινετα υπο αλλης συνειδησεωσ; ). Supply γενητα (de…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 10:29
19th Century
Bishop
Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other.—In the previous verse there is nothing to indicate that the obligation not to eat the …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 10:29
19th Century
Preacher
That person may not be able to do it without harming himself, but I can, and I have the freedom to do so; yet, as a Christian, I am to consider his…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 10:29
Meat eaten at an idol feast is associated with pagan worship and is contaminated, Paul claims. But meat sold in the public meat market has lost its…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 10:29
16th Century
Theologian
Conscience, I say, not thine own. He always carefully takes heed not to diminish liberty, or to appear to take from it in any degree. “You…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 10:29
17th Century
Pastor
Conscience I say, not thine own
Which is well informed about these things, and is fully persuaded that an idol is no…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 10:23–33
17th Century
Minister
There were situations where Christians could eat food that had been offered to idols without sinning. For example, this was permissible when meat, …