1 Coríntios 8

1 Coríntios 8

Spurgeon - Do you not think, dear friends, that though it may be quite proper for you to take a glass of wine or a glass of beer, and there is no sin in the thing at all, your example may be injurious to somebody to whom it would be a sin to take it? Perhaps some persons cannot take a glass without taking two, three, four, five, or six glasses. You can stop, you know; but if your example leads them to start, and they cannot stop, is it right to set them going? Though you have a clear head, and can stand in a dangerous place, I would not recommend you to go there if somebody else would thus be placed in danger. If I were walking by the cliffs of Dover, and I happened to have a very fine cool head, yet, if I had my sons with me, and I knew that they had ordinary kinds of heads, I should not like to go and stand just on a jutting piece of crag so as to induce them to try the same position. No; I should feel, "Though I can stand here, you cannot; and if I stand here, perhaps you will attempt it, and fall, and I shall be guilty of your blood." Let us treat men as we would treat our sons; and let us be weak to their weakness, and deny ourselves for their sakes. Is not that good and proper reasoning? It seems to me that it is. If it is not good reasoning, it is safe. I never have asked God to forgive me for my sin in going without strong drink. I have never seen any commandment in Scripture showing that I am bound to take it. I feel free to do as I like about abstaining; but especially free when for the good of others I prefer to abstain altogether. 1 Corinthians 8:12 And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Amplified - And when you sin against your brethren in this way, wounding and damaging their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Wuest Moreover, sinning in this manner against your brethren and inflicting a blow on their conscience when it is weak, against Christ you are sinning; (Eerdmans Publishing - used by permission) NET 1 Corinthians 8:12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. NLT 1 Corinthians 8:12 And when you sin against other believers by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong, you are sinning against Christ. ESV 1 Corinthians 8:12 Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. NIV 1 Corinthians 8:12 When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. GNT 1 Corinthians 8:12 οὕτως δὲ ἁμαρτάνοντες εἰς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς καὶ τύπτοντες αὐτῶν τὴν συνείδησιν ἀσθενοῦσαν εἰς Χριστὸν ἁμαρτάνετε. KJV 1 Corinthians 8:12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. YLT 1 Corinthians 8:12 and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin; ASV 1 Corinthians 8:12 And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. CSB 1 Corinthians 8:12 Now when you sin like this against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ. NKJ 1 Corinthians 8:12 But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. NRS 1 Corinthians 8:12 But when you thus sin against members of your family, and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. NAB 1 Corinthians 8:12 When you sin in this way against your brothers and wound their consciences, weak as they are, you are sinning against Christ. NJB 1 Corinthians 8:12 So, sinning against your brothers and wounding their vulnerable consciences, you would be sinning against Christ. GWN 1 Corinthians 8:12 When you sin against other believers in this way and harm their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ. BBE 1 Corinthians 8:12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ. And so: Ge 20:9 42:22 Ex 32:21 1Sa 2:25 19:4,5 24:11 Mt 18:21 by sinning against: 1Co 12:12 Ex 16:8 Mt 12:49,50 18:10,11 25:40,45 Ac 9:4,5 1 Corinthians 8 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries STRONGER BROTHER SINS AGAINST WEAKER BROTHER AND CHRIST! And so, by (present tense - continually) sinning (hamartano) against the brethren and (present tense - continually) wounding (tupto/typto) their conscience (suneidesis) when it is (present tense - continually) weak you (present tense - continually) sin (hamartano) against Christ - Note that the stronger brother has manifested the antithesis of Christian love called for in 1 Cor 8:1. And in so doing not only is he guilty of sin against the weaker brother, but worst of all, he is guilt of sin against Christ! One would think a stronger brother reading this would thereafter be especially cautious about where and how openly he ate his "MacIdol Burgers!"