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For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol`s temple, won`t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
For if any man. Any Christian brother who is ignorant, or anyone who might otherwise become a Christian.
Which hast knowledge
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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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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…
16th Century
Protestant
If anyone see thee. From this it appears more clearly how much liberty the Corinthians allowed themselves; for when the wicked made a kind…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For if any man see you who have knowledge That is, not any person whatever; not one that has equal knowledge, and ca…
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