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Hurting a Believer is Hurting Christ
Commentators unanimously agree that because believers are members of Christ's body, injuring a fellow Christian is a direct sin against Christ himself. They draw a straight line from this verse to Jesus's words in Matthew 25:40 ('whatever you did for one of the least of these... you did for me') and his confrontation with Saul in Acts 9. The offense is not merely horizontal (person to person) but vertical (person to God).
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 8:12
18th Century
Theologian
But when you sin so against the brothers. This is designed further to show the evil of causing others to sin, and thus the evil which migh…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 8:12
Wounding their conscience (τυπτοντες αυτων την συνειδησιν). Old verb τυπτω, to smite with fist, staff, whip. The conscience is sen…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 8:12
19th Century
Bishop
When ye sin so.—When you sin in this way—and he explains further what the sin is: “Striking a blow upon their weak consci…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 8:12
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 8:12
16th Century
Theologian
When ye sin so against the brethren, etc. For if the soul of everyone who is weak is the price of Christ’s blood, that man who, for the sa…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 8:12
17th Century
Pastor
But when you sin so against the brethren
Through sitting at meat in an idol's temple, and thereby violating the new commandmen…
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…