1 Corinthians 10:32

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Never do anything that might make other people do wrong—Jews, non-Jews, or anyone in God's church.

Revised Standard Version
Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Se that ye geve occasion of evell nether to ye Iewes nor yet to the gentyls nether to ye cogregacion of god:

Hebrew Names Version
Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Yehudim, or to Yevanim, or to the assembly of God;

International Standard Version
Stop beingDon't be">[fn] stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,Acts 20:28; Romans 14:13; 1 Corinthians 8:13; 11:22; 2 Corinthians 6:3; 1 Timothy 3:5;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
Do not offend Jews or Greeks, or the church of God;

New Century Version
Never do anything that might hurt others—Jews, Greeks, or God's church—

Update Bible Version
Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

Webster's Bible Translation
Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

English Standard Version
Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

World English Bible
Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Give no offence either to the Jews, or to the Gentiles, or to the church of God:

Weymouth's New Testament
Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be ye with outen sclaundre to Jewis, and to hethene men, and to the chirche of God;

English Revised Version
Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

Berean Standard Bible
Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,

Contemporary English Version
Don't cause problems for Jews or Greeks or anyone else who belongs to God's church.

Amplified Bible
Do not offend Jews or Greeks or even the church of God [but live to honor Him];

American Standard Version
Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:

Bible in Basic English
Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.

Complete Jewish Bible
Do not be an obstacle to anyone — not to Jews, not to Gentiles, and not to God's Messianic Community.

Darby Translation
Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly of God.

Etheridge Translation
Give no offence to Jihudoyee, or to Aramoyee, or to the church of Aloha.

Murdock Translation
Be ye without offence to the Jews, and to the Gentiles, and to the church of God:

King James Version (1611)
Giue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God:

New Living Translation
Don't give offense to Jews or Gentiles or the church of God.

New Life Bible
Do nothing that would make trouble for a Greek or for a Jew or for the church of God.

New Revised Standard
Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Giue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor to the Grecians, nor to the Church of God:

George Lamsa Translation
Give no offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Syrians, nor to the church of God;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Give no occasion of stumbling - whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
See that ye geue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor yet to the Grecians, neither to the Churche of God.

Good News Translation
Live in such a way as to cause no trouble either to Jews or Gentiles or to the church of God.

Christian Standard Bible®
Give no offense to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,

King James Version
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

Lexham English Bible
Give no offense both to Jews and to Greeks and to the church of God,

Literal Translation
Be without offense both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God.

Young's Literal Translation
become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be not ye an occasion of fallinge, nether to the Iewes, ner to the Gentyles, ner to the congregacion of God,

Mace New Testament (1729)
give no offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.

New English Translation
Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

New King James Version
Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God,

Simplified Cowboy Version
Be mindful of your reputation with Jews, Gentiles, and anyone else for that matter.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;

Legacy Standard Bible
Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;

Contextual Overview

²³Looking at it one way, you could say, "Anything goes. Because of God's immense generosity and grace, we don't have to dissect and scrutinize every action to see if it will pass muster." But the point is not to just get by. We want to live well, but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well. ²⁵With that as a base to work from, common sense can take you the rest of the way. Eat anything sold at the butcher shop, for instance; you don't have to run an "idolatry test" on every item. "The earth," after all, "is God's, and everything in it." That "everything" certainly includes the leg of lamb in the butcher shop. If a nonbeliever invites you to dinner and you feel like going, go ahead and enjoy yourself; eat everything placed before you. It would be both bad manners and bad spirituality to cross-examine your host on the ethical purity of each course as it is served. On the other hand, if he goes out of his way to tell you that this or that was sacrificed to god or goddess so-and-so, you should pass. Even though you may be indifferent as to where it came from, he isn't, and you don't want to send mixed messages to him about who you are worshiping. ²⁹But, except for these special cases, I'm not going to walk around on eggshells worrying about what small-minded people might say; I'm going to stride free and easy, knowing what our large-minded Master has already said. If I eat what is served to me, grateful to God for what is on the table, how can I worry about what someone will say? I thanked God for it and he blessed it! ³¹So eat your meals heartily, not worrying about what others say about you—you're eating to God's glory, after all, not to please them. As a matter of fact, do everything that way, heartily and freely to God's glory. At the same time, don't be callous in your exercise of freedom, thoughtlessly stepping on the toes of those who aren't as free as you are. I try my best to be considerate of everyone's feelings in all these matters; I hope you will be, too.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

none: 1 Corinthians 10:33, 1 Corinthians 8:13, Romans 14:13, 2 Corinthians 6:3, Philippians 1:10

Gentiles: or, Greeks

the church: 1 Corinthians 11:22, Acts 20:28, 1 Timothy 3:5, 1 Timothy 3:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:16 - Give your cattle Leviticus 19:14 - not curse Deuteronomy 22:8 - then thou shalt Ruth 3:14 - Let it not 2 Kings 5:16 - I will receive Isaiah 57:14 - take Matthew 15:12 - Knowest Matthew 17:27 - lest Matthew 18:6 - offend Mark 9:42 - offend Luke 17:1 - It is Acts 19:37 - which Romans 14:20 - but 1 Corinthians 8:9 - a stumblingblock 1 Corinthians 8:10 - shall not 1 Corinthians 10:29 - not Philippians 2:4 - General Philippians 3:17 - be 1 Timothy 3:7 - lest 1 Timothy 6:1 - that the

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You're responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it—don't eat that.

Genesis 10:1
This is the family tree of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the flood, they themselves had sons.

Genesis 10:20
These are the descendants of Ham by family, language, country, and nation.

Genesis 10:31
These are the descendants of Shem by family, language, country, and nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Give none offence,.... Avoid everything that may be the occasion of offence, of the stumbling and falling of others; whether things indifferent, when they are offensive to weak minds, and grieve, and wound, and stumble them; especially things sinful, which as they offend God, and are therefore called "offences", so they are offensive to the churches of Christ, and are cognizable by them; they are staggering and stumbling to weak believers, when committed by professors of religion; are the means of inducing others to sin, and of hardening profane sinners in their iniquities, and give occasion to the enemy to blaspheme: but things that are good, and are made our incumbent duty, are not to be avoided, though persons may be offended thereat; such as the pure preaching of the Gospel, the profession of it, and submission to the ordinances thereof; for an offence is either taken or given; to give offence is one thing, which we should carefully avoid; and to take it, when there is no just reason for it, is another, and not to be regarded:

neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God; which may be considered as having a peculiar respect to the people of God: the two first of these, namely, Jews and Gentiles, being what constituted the first churches, and this at Corinth, so that they may be thought to be the parts, and the church the whole; and the apostle first mentions the one, and then the other, signifying, that they were not to give offence neither to single persons, nor to the whole church; and particularly in the case of eating things offered to idols, care was to be taken that neither Jews nor Gentiles were offended, being both members of the church. Or these may be considered as including all sorts of persons; for Jews and Gentiles include the whole world, and may here mean all that are without, that have no true faith in Christ, nor any spiritual knowledge of him; and "the church", all such as know him, believe in him, and profess his name: so that the apostle's sense is, that care should be taken that no offence be given to any sort of men, neither to the men of the world, of whatsoever character, nor to professors of religion, and more especially the latter; since offending one of the least of them that believe in Christ, is displeasing to him; and since he was so careful to guard against the offence of them, and will, by his angels, at the last day, gather out of his kingdom all such as offend; and has ordered his churches to mark them which cause offences and divisions; and since it is so hard a thing to reconcile an offended brother, who is harder to be won than a strong castle; though that is not his excellency, yet as it makes the case so difficult, it should be guarded against.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Give none offence - Be inoffensive; that is, do not act so as to lead others into sin; see the note at Romans 14:13.

Neither to the Jews ... - To no one, though they are the foes of God or strangers to him. To the Jews be inoffensive, because they think that the least approach to idol worship is to be abhorred. Do not so act as to lead them to think that you connive at or approve idol worship, and so as to prejudice them the more against the Christian religion, and lead them more and more to oppose it. In other words, do not attend the feasts in honor of idols.

Nor to the Gentiles - Greek “Greeks.” To the pagans who are unconverted. They are attached to idol worship. They seek every way to justify themselves in it. Do not countenance them in it, and thus lead them into the sin of idolatry.

Nor to the church of God - To Christians. Many of them are weak. They may not be as fully instructed as you are. Your example would lead them into sin. Abstain, therefore, from things which, though they are in themselves strictly “lawful,” may yet be the occasion of leading others into sin, and endangering their salvation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. Give none offence, &c.] Scrupulously avoid giving any cause of offence either to the unconverted Jews or the unconverted Gentiles, so as to prejudice them against Christianity: nor to the Church of God, made up of converts from the above parties.