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Your Example Can Lead to Sin
Commentators explain that when a Christian with 'knowledge' eats in an idol's temple, their example doesn't educate a weaker believer. Instead, it 'emboldens' them to violate their own conscience, leading them into an act they personally believe is sinful. Your freedom, exercised without love, can become a direct cause of another's stumbling.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 8:10
18th Century
Theologian
For if any man. Any Christian brother who is ignorant, or anyone who might otherwise become a Christian.
Which hast knowledge
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 8:10
If a man see thee which hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple (εαν γαρ τις ιδη [σε] τον εχοντα γνωσιν εν ειδωλειω κατ…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 8:10
19th Century
Bishop
For if any man (that is, any of the weak brothers) see thee which hast knowledge.—The fact of your being openly advanced in the k…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 8:10
Though Christians have the authority to act as Paul has just described, they must “be careful” (GK 1063) lest through the exercise of this authorit…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 8:10
16th Century
Theologian
If anyone see thee. From this it appears more clearly how much liberty the Corinthians allowed themselves; for when the wicked made a kind…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 8:10
17th Century
Pastor
For if any man see you who have knowledge
That is, not any person whatever; not one that has equal knowledge, and ca…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 8:7–13
17th Century
Minister
Eating one kind of food and abstaining from another have nothing in them to recommend a person to God. But the apostle cautions against putting a s…