哥林多前书 8:9

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

然而你們要謹慎，免得你們這自由成了軟弱的人的絆腳石。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
只 是 你 们 要 谨 慎 ， 恐 怕 你 们 这 自 由 竟 成 了 那 软 弱 人 的 绊 脚 石 。

Contextual Overview

⁷ But not all people know this. Some people are still so used to idols that when they eat meat, they still think of it as being sacrificed to an idol. Because their conscience is weak, when they eat it, they feel guilty. ⁸ But food will not bring us closer to God. Refusing to eat does not make us less pleasing to God, and eating does not make us better in God's sight. ⁹ But be careful that your freedom does not cause those who are weak in faith to fall into sin. ¹⁰ Suppose one of you who has knowledge eats in an idol's temple. Someone who is weak in faith might see you eating there and be encouraged to eat meat sacrificed to idols while thinking it is wrong to do so. ¹¹ This weak believer for whom Christ died is ruined because of your "knowledge." ¹² 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. ¹³ So if the food I eat causes them to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause any of them to sin.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

take: 1 Corinthians 8:10, 1 Corinthians 10:24, 1 Corinthians 10:29, Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:7, Matthew 18:10, Luke 17:1, Luke 17:2, Romans 14:20, Romans 14:21, Galatians 5:13, 1 Peter 2:16, 2 Peter 2:19

liberty: or, power

a stumblingblock: 1 Corinthians 10:32, Leviticus 19:14, Isaiah 57:14, Ezekiel 14:3, Ezekiel 44:12, Romans 14:13-15, Romans 14:20, Galatians 5:13, Revelation 2:14

weak: 1 Corinthians 8:12, 1 Corinthians 9:22, Isaiah 35:3, Romans 14:1, Romans 14:2, Romans 15:1, 2 Corinthians 11:21

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 10:29 - made Israel Song of Solomon 7:13 - I have Matthew 17:27 - lest 1 Corinthians 8:7 - with 1 Corinthians 9:18 - that I 1 Corinthians 10:23 - things are lawful 2 Corinthians 6:3 - General Galatians 2:13 - the other Philippians 2:4 - General Revelation 22:14 - may have

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 28:65
You will have no rest among those nations and no place that is yours. The Lord will make your mind worried, your sight weak, and your soul sad.

Psalms 116:7
I said to myself, "Relax, because the Lord takes care of you."

Isaiah 60:8
"The people are returning to you like clouds, like doves flying to their nests.

Ezekiel 7:16
Those who are left alive and who escape will be on the mountains, moaning like doves of the valleys about their own sin.

Matthew 11:28
"Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest.

John 16:33
"I told you these things so that you can have peace in me. In this world you will have trouble, but be brave! I have defeated the world."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But take heed lest by any means,.... This is either a reply to the instance of such as argued in favour of eating things offered to idols; or a limitation and explanation of the apostle's own concession, that it made a man, with respect to the favour of God, neither better nor worse: yet care should be taken, lest

this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak; he owns they had a liberty, or a right, or power, as the word may be rendered, of eating, or not eating, as they pleased; but then they ought to be cautious, lest they should be the means of offending, or causing to offend, such who were weak in the faith, and had not that knowledge of Christian liberty they had: not the use of their power and liberty is here denied, but the abuse of it is guarded against; for though the action itself was indifferent, yet as it might be used, it might be sinful, being attended with very bad consequences, such as hereafter mentioned.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But take heed - This is the reply of Paul to the argument of the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 8:8. “Though all that you say should be admitted to be true, as it must be; though a man is neither morally better nor worse for partaking of meat or abstaining from it; yet the grand principle to be observed is, so to act as not to injure your brethren. Though you may be no better or worse for eating or not eating, yet if your conduct shall injure others, and lead them into sin, that is a sufficient guide to determine you what to do in the case. You should abstain entirely. It is of far more importance that your brother should not be led into sin, than it is that you should partake of meat which you acknowledge 1 Corinthians 8:8 is in itself of no importance.”

Lest by any means - μή πως mē pōs. You should be careful that by no conduct of yours your brother be led into sin. This is a general principle that is to regulate Christian conduct in all matters that are in themselves indifferent.

This liberty of yours - This which you claim as a right; this power which you have, and the exercise of which is in itself lawful. The “liberty” or power ἐξουσία exousia here referred to was that of partaking of the meat that was offered in sacrifice to idols; 1 Corinthians 8:8. A man may have a right abstractly to do a thing, but it may not be prudent or wise to exercise it.

Become a stumbling-block - An occasion of sin; see the note at Matthew 5:29; also see the note at Romans 14:13. See that it be not the occasion of leading others to sin, and to abandon their Christian profession; 1 Corinthians 8:10.

To them that are weak - To those professing Christians who are not fully informed or instructed in regard to the true nature of idolatry, and who still may have a superstitious regard for the gods whom their fathers worshipped.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 8:9. But take heed — Lest by frequenting such feasts and eating things offered to idols, under the conviction that an idol is nothing, and that you may eat those things innocently, this liberty of yours should become a means of grievously offending a weak brother who has not your knowledge, or inducing one who respects you for your superior knowledge to partake of these things with the conscience, the persuasion and belief, that an idol is something, and to conclude, that as you partake of such things, so he may also, and with safety. He is not possessed of your superior information on this point, and he eats to the idol what you take as a common meal.