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1 Corinthians 8:12
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If a cowboy with a weaker faith thinks something is wrong, and you intentionally encourage him to do it anyway, that is a sin. It's not just a sin against him, but again Jesus.
And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
And in that way, by sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.
Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
Now when you sin like this against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
But when ye sin thus against your brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
Moreover when you thus sin against the brethren and wound their weak consciences, you are, in reality, sinning against Christ.
But when ye sinne so against the brethren, and wound their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christ.
And sinning in this way against your brothers, and wounding their conscience, being weak, you sin against Christ.
But whan ye synne so agaynst the brethren, and wounde their weake coscience, ye synne agaynst Christ.
but when you thus offend against the brethren, by wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
And when you sin against the brothers and sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience [by confusing them], you sin against Christ.
And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.
Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
And thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
But when ye thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;
When you sin against your brothers and sisters in Christ like this and cause them to do what they feel is wrong, you are also sinning against Christ.
If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
When you sin by hurting a follower with a weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
and so, when you sin against the brothers by wounding their conscience when it is weak, you are sinning against the Messiah!
Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Nowe when ye sinne so against the brethren, and wound their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christ.
And if you offend your brothers, and so influence their weak conscience, you also offend Christ.
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Messiah.
When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.Matthew 25:40,45;">[xr]
And if so you transgress against your brethren, and wound their weak consciences, do you not transgress against the Meshiha?
And if ye thus sin against your brethren, and wound the consciences of the feeble, ye sin against the Messiah.
But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
And when you sin against other believers by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong, you are sinning against Christ.
When you sin against a weak Christian by making him do what is wrong, you sin against Christ.
And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.
But when you thus sin against members of your family, and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
But, in thus sinning against the brethren am wounding their conscience, seeing it is weak, against Christ, are ye sinning.
Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
Now if you sin in this way against the brothers and wound their conscience, which is weak, you sin against Christ.
When ye sinne so against the brethren, and wounde their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christe.
When you sin against your brothers and sisters in Christ in this way and you hurt them by causing them to do things they feel are wrong, you are also sinning against Christ.
And so, by sinning against the brothers and sisters and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
And in this way you will be sinning against Christ by sinning against other Christians and wounding their weak conscience.
For thus ye synnyng ayens britheren, and smytynge her sijk conscience synnen ayens Crist.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
when: Genesis 20:9, Genesis 42:22, Exodus 32:21, 1 Samuel 2:25, 1 Samuel 19:4, 1 Samuel 19:5, 1 Samuel 24:11, Matthew 18:21
ye sin against: 1 Corinthians 12:12, Exodus 16:8, Matthew 12:49, Matthew 12:50, Matthew 18:10, Matthew 18:11, Matthew 25:40, Matthew 25:45, Acts 9:4, Acts 9:5
Reciprocal: Numbers 32:15 - ye shall Matthew 18:15 - if Luke 15:21 - against Luke 17:2 - one Romans 14:15 - thy brother 1 Corinthians 8:9 - weak Galatians 2:18 - General Hebrews 10:24 - consider
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But when ye sin so against the brethren,.... Through sitting at meat in an idol's temple, and thereby violating the new commandment of love; by which saints are obliged to love one another as brethren, and take care to do nothing that may hurt and prejudice one another's peace and comfort, it being an incumbent duty upon them by love to serve one another: and
wound their weak conscience: as before observed: it is contrary to the law of love to wound a brother; it is an aggravation of the sin to wound a weak one; what greater cruelty than to strike or beat, as the word here used signifies, a sick and infirm man? and greater still to strike and wound his conscience than any part of his body; for a wounded spirit is insupportable without divine aid and influence; and what serves most to enhance the crime and guilt is,
ye sin against Christ, who has so loved this weak brother as to die for him; and between whom there is so close an union, as between head and members; and from whence such a sympathy arises, that what is done to or against such a person, Christ takes as done to himself. The Syriac version emphatically adds, הו, "himself".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But when ye sin so against the brethren - This is designed further to show the evil of causing others to sin; and hence, the evil which might arise from partaking of the meat offered to idols. The word sin here is to be taken in the sense of “injuring, offending, leading into sin.” You violate the law which requires you to love your brethren, and to seek their welfare, and thus you sin against them. Sin is properly against God; but there may be a course of injury pursued against people, or doing them injustice or wrong, and this is sin against them. Christians are bound to do right toward all.
And wound their weak conscience - The word “wound” here (τύπτοντες tuptontes, “smiting, beating”) is taken in the sense of injure. Their consciences are ill-informed. They have not the knowledge which you have. And by your conduct they are led further into error, and believe that the idol is something, and is to be honored. They are thus led into sin, and their conscience is more and more perverted, and oppressed more and more with a sense of guilt.
Ye sin against Christ - Because:
(1) Christ has commanded you to love them, and seek their good, and not to lead them into sin, and,
(2) Because they are so intimately united to Christ (see the notes at John 15:1 ff) that to offend them is to offend him; to injure the members is to injure the head; to destroy their souls is to pain his heart and to injure his cause; see the note at Matthew 10:40; compare Luke 10:16.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 8:12. But when ye sin so against the brethren — Against Christians, who are called by the Gospel to abhor and detest all such abominations.
Ye sin against Christ. — By sending to perdition, through your bad example, a soul for whom he shed his blood; and so far defeating the gracious intentions of his sacrificial death. This is a farther intimation, that a person for whom Christ died may perish; and this is the drift of the apostle's argument.
