1 Corinthians 10:29
Good News Translation
that is, not your own conscience, but the other person's conscience. "Well, then," someone asks, "why should my freedom to act be limited by another person's conscience?

New Revised Standard Version
I mean the other’s conscience, not your own. For why should my liberty be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience?

New American Bible
I mean not your own conscience, but the other’s. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?

not.

1 Corinthians 10:32 Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God:

1 Corinthians 8:9-13 But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak. . . .

Romans 14:15-21 For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. . . .

why.

Romans 14:16 Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

2 Corinthians 8:21 For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also before men.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.

Context
All to God's Glory
28But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience' sake. 29Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience? 30If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?…
Cross References
Luke 4:18
The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

Romans 14:16
Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 9:19
For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more.

1 Corinthians 10:28
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