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Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other`s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
For why is my liberty judged by another conscience? (ινα τ γαρ η ελευθερια μου κρινετα υπο αλλης συνειδησεωσ; ). Supply γενητα (de…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Conscience I say, not thine own Which is well informed about these things, and is fully persuaded that an idol is no…
There were situations where Christians could eat food that had been offered to idols without sinning. For example, this was permissible when meat, …
