What does 1 Corinthians 8:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ."
1 CORINTHIANS 8:12 avsqenou/san {A} The absence of avsqenou/san from î46 and Clement was regarded as either an accident in transcription or a deliberate modification, introduced to prevent the reade...
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...
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 wor...
5. CONCERNING MEATS OFFERED TO IDOLS: CHRISTIAN LIBERTY GOVERNED BY LOVE CHAPTER 8 _ 1. Concerning things sacrificed to idols and knowledge. (1 Corinthians 8:1)._ 2. True knowledge and liberty gove...
1 CORINTHIANS 8. LET THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE CONTROL ITS EXERCISE BY LOVE, LEST THEY RUIN THEIR BROTHER FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED. Paul begins with a quotation from the church letter. They claim that all...
ADVICE TO THE WISE (1 Corinthians 8:1-13) 8 With reference to things offered to idols--we are well aware that we all possess knowledge; but knowledge inflates a man, whereas love builds him up. If an...
SIN. App-128. AGAINST. App-104. WOUND. strike. THEIR, &C. = their conscience since it is weak....
1 Corinthians 8:1-13. The Question of Meats offered in Sacrifice to Idols There is a great general similarity between this chapter and Romans 14. The question comes before the reader there in a somew...
THE QUESTION OF MEATS OFFERED IN SACRIFICE TO IDOLS There is a great general similarity between this chapter and Romans 14. The question comes before the reader there in a somewhat different form. The...
_I WILL EAT NO FLESH 1 CORINTHIANS 8:11-13:_ We must deny ourselves even concerning what is lawful rather than to cause a weak brother for whom Christ died to stumble. What happened is this; the weak...
ΆΜΑΡΤΆΝΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΜΑΡΤΆΝΩ (G264) грешить. Cond. или _temp. part._, или _part._ средства, ΕΙΣ с _асс._ против, ΤΎΠΤΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΤΎΠΤΩ (G563) ранить, ударять кулаком...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 8:7-12. Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their consc...
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. WOUND THEIR WEAK CONSCIENCE - literally, 'smile their conscience, being (as yet) weak.' It aggravat...
31 The transient, fleeting character of all of this world's relationships and experiences should warn us not to let them take an undue hold upon our hearts. We cannot but use the world to a limited ex...
_(B) FOOD OFFERED TO IDOLS_ In these Chapter s St. Paul answers another question of the Corinthians—as to the lawfulness of eating food which had been offered in sacrifice to idols. This was a very ur...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 8 THE PROBLEM 8:1-13 V1 Now I want to deal with the question about food that someone has *sacrificed to *idols. We know that we all have k...
WHEN YE SIN SO. — When you sin in this way — and he explains further what the sin is: “Striking a blow upon their weak consciences” — you sin against Christ. You wound a member of that body which is H...
CHAPTER 12 LIBERTY AND LOVE THE next question which had been put to Paul by the Corinthian Church, and to which he now replies, is "touching things offered unto idols," whether a Christian had libert...
§ 26. THE WEAK CONSCIENCE OF THE OLD IDOLATER. The knowledge of the one Father and Lord upon which the Cor [1251] Church prided itself, had not released all its members from fears respecting the _idol...
CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS' WEAKNESS 1 Corinthians 8:1 It was the heathen custom of the time to present for blessing in the idol temples the food that was sold and bought in public marketplaces. A grav...
The apostle next dealt with the subject of "things sacrificed to idols." The question evidently was whether the members of the Church in Corinth ought under any circumstances to eat parts of the heath...
A Demonstration of Brotherly Love Despite the fact that there is only one true God, Paul indicated some converts still held a feeling of reverence for the idols they had long worshiped. They would ha...
(8) But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. (8) Another amplification: such offending of our weak brethren, results in the offending of Christ...
I. THE QUESTION CONSIDERED FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF OUR NEIGHBOUR'S SALVATION. 8:1-9:22. The apostle proves that if there is a knowledge which all equally possess (1 Corinthians 8:1-6), there remains a...
(7) Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. (8) But me...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
12._When ye sin so against the brethren_, etc. For if the soul of every one that is weak is the price of Christ’s blood, that man who, for the sake of a very small portion of meat, hurries back again...
After this the apostle answers the question respecting meats offered to idols, which gives occasion to a few words on the value of knowledge. Simply as knowledge, it is worth nothing. If we look at it...
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...
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Ver. 12. _And wound their weak consciences_] Gr. τυπτοντες, beat upon it to make it sound heavily, as...
_But take heed lest this liberty of yours_ To eat indifferently of such meats; _become a stumbling-block_ An occasion of doing what they judge unlawful; _to them that are weak_ Uninformed in the truth...
A warning against the reckless use of Christian liberty:...
Chapter s 1 Timothy 4 have given God's answer to worldly wisdom; Chapter s 5 to 7 have dealt with questions concerning the flesh: now chapter 8 turns to the matter of Satanic influence, and this is fu...
AND THUS, SINNING AGAINST THE BRETHREN, AND WOUNDING THEIR CONSCIENCE WHEN IT IS WEAK, YE SIN AGAINST CHRIST. 'And thus' -'in this manner.. connecting the sin against the brother with the conduct pr...
7-13 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 stumbling-block in the way of the weak; lest t...
BUT WHEN YE SIN SO AGAINST THE BRETHREN: sin is properly against God, for it is a breach of the Divine law; but the violations of that part of the Divine law which concerneth our duty to our neighbour...
And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. [who suffers with the very least of his servants (Matthew 18:6; Matthew 25:40; Matthew 25:...
The Second Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity believers say, "Never will we eat flesh, that we may not make our brother to stumble."[24]...
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'But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak. For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he...
As part of the sacrificial victims went to the market, it was liable to be served to Christians at the tables of their heathen friends; and as festive entertainments were often held in the idol temple...
WOUNDING THEIR CONSCIENCE (τυπτοντες αυτων την συνειδησιν). Old verb τυπτω, to smite with fist, staff, whip. The conscience is sensitive to a blow like that, a slap in the face.YE SIN AGAINST CHRIS...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
CONTENTS: Meats offered to idols, and the limitations of Christians' liberty. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: There is nothing in the distinction of food that will make any distinction be...
1 Corinthians 8:4. _We know that an idol is nothing._ St. Paul transcribes this from Zechariah 2:18, where the Hebrew text is literally “dumb nothings,” for dumb idols; a phrase used by the Gnostics....
AND IN THIS WAY. Each Christian is a _proxy_ of Christ. See note on Acts 9:4. If you sin against your brother, you sin against Christ!...
_How as touching things offered to idols._ LIBERTY AND LOVE 1. The question about meats necessarily arose in a society partly heathen and partly Christian. Every meal was dedicated to the household...
CHAPTER 8 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this Chapter he treats of the second general question put before him by the Corinthians. It dealt with things offered to idols, and whether it was lawful to eat...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ N.B. 1.—See the question discussed in this chapter homiletically treated under 1 Corinthians 6:12. N.B. 2.—Note how Paul here (as in Romans 14:15.) bases nothing of his reply to th...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 8:1 _The relation of lore to knowledge with respect to the question of eating idol offerings._ 1 CORINTHIANS 8:1 AS TOUCHING THINGS OFFERED UNTO IDOLS. This was doubtless...
Now, the second issue: Now as touching the things offered unto idols, we know that we have all knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up (1 Corinthians 8:1). A contrast between knowledge and...
1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Samuel 19:4; 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 Samuel 24:11; Acts 9:4; Acts 9:5; Exodus 16:8; Exodus 32:21; Genesis 20:9;...
Ye sin against Christ — Whose members they are....
The apostle goes on to show, that such an use of our Christian liberty as doth embolden and encourage others to do that which is evil, is both an act of uncharitableness towards our brother, and also...