1 Corinthians 8:11 So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

English Standard Version
And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

New American Standard Bible
For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

King James Bible
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the weak person, the brother for whom Christ died, is ruined by your knowledge.

International Standard Version
In that case, the weak brother for whom the Messiah died is ruined by your knowledge.

American Standard Version
For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died ?

Darby Bible Translation
and the weak one, the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.

Young's Literal Translation
and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?

Cross References

John 6:27
Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for him has God the Father sealed.

Romans 14:15
But if your brother be grieved with your meat, now walk you not charitably. Destroy not him with your meat, for whom Christ died.

Romans 14:20
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense.

1 Corinthians 8:4
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:7-13 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 they be made bold to eat what was offered to the idol, not as common food, but as a sacrifice, and thereby be guilty of idolatry. He who has the Spirit of Christ in him, will love those whom Christ loved so as to die for them. Injuries done to Christians, are done to Christ; but most of all, the entangling them in guilt: wounding their consciences, is wounding him. We should be very tender of doing any thing that may occasion stumbling to others, though it may be innocent in itself. And if we must not endanger other men's souls, how much should we take care not to destroy our own! Let Christians beware of approaching the brink of evil, or the appearance of it, though many do this in public matters, for which perhaps they plead plausibly. Men cannot thus sin against their brethren, without offending Christ, and endangering their own souls.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. shall … perish—The oldest manuscripts read "perisheth." A single act seemingly unimportant may produce everlasting consequences. The weak brother loses his faith, and if he do not recover it, his salvation [Bengel] (Ro 14:23).

for whom Christ died—and for whose sake we too ought to be willing to die (1Jo 3:16). And yet professing Christians at Corinth virtually tempted their brethren to their damnation, so far were they from sacrificing aught for their salvation. Note here, that it is no argument against the dogma that Christ died for all, even for those who perish, to say that thus He would have died in vain for many. Scripture is our rule, not our suppositions as to consequences. More is involved in redemption than the salvation of man: the character of God as at once just and loving is vindicated even in the case of the lost for they might have been saved, and so even in their case Christ has not died in vain. So the mercies of God's providence are not in vain, though many abuse them. Even the condemned shall manifest God's love in the great day, in that they too had the offer of God's mercy. It shall be the most awful ingredient in their cup that they might have been saved but would not: Christ died to redeem even them.