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10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be “strengthened”[a] to eat food offered to idols? 11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister,[b] for whom Christ died, is destroyed.[c] 12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters[d] in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:10 tn Or “built up”; This is the same word used in v. 1b. It is used ironically here: The weak person is “built up” to commit what he regards as sin.
  2. 1 Corinthians 8:11 tn Grk “the one who is weak…the brother for whom Christ died,” but see note on the word “Christian” in 5:11.
  3. 1 Corinthians 8:11 tn This may be an indirect middle, “destroys himself.”
  4. 1 Corinthians 8:12 tn See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.