1 Corinthians 8:13
Good News Translation
So then, if food makes a believer sin, I will never eat meat again, so as not to make a believer fall into sin.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall.

Contemporary English Version
So if I hurt one of the Lord's followers by what I eat, I will never eat meat as long as I live.

New American Bible
Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause my brother to sin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.

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1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful to me: but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me: but I will not be brought under the power of any.

1 Corinthians 9:12,19-23 If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:33 As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself but to many: that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

Romans 14:21 It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?

2 Timothy 3:8,9 Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. . . .

Context
Food Sacrificed to Idols
12Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother.
Cross References
Matthew 17:27


Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

Romans 14:13
Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother's way.

Romans 14:21
It is good not to eat flesh and not to drink wine: nor any thing whereby thy brother is offended or scandalized or made weak.

1 Corinthians 10:32
Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God:

2 Corinthians 6:3
Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed.

2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire?

1 Corinthians 8:12
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