1 Corinthians 8:13
Strong's Lexicon
Therefore,
Διόπερ (Dioper)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1355: Wherefore (emphatically), for which very reason. From dio and per; on which very account.

if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

[what I eat]
βρῶμα (brōma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 1033: Food of any kind. From the base of bibrosko; food, especially articles allowed or forbidden by the Jewish law.

causes
σκανδαλίζει (skandalizei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 4624: From skandalon; to entrap, i.e. Trip up (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure).

my
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

brother {to stumble},
ἀδελφόν (adelphon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

I will never eat
φάγω (phagō)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 5315: A primary verb; to eat.

meat
κρέα (krea)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 2907: Flesh; plur: pieces of flesh, kinds of flesh. Perhaps a primary word; meat.

[again],
αἰῶνα (aiōna)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 165: From the same as aei; properly, an age; by extension, perpetuity; by implication, the world; specially a Messianic period.

so that
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

I will not cause
σκανδαλίσω (skandalisō)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 4624: From skandalon; to entrap, i.e. Trip up (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure).

[him] {to stumble}.
ἀδελφόν (adelphon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

Young's Literal Translation
wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh—to the age—that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won’t cause my brother to fall.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

King James Bible
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

New Living Translation
So if what I eat causes another believer to sin, I will never eat meat again as long as I live--for I don't want to cause another believer to stumble.

English Standard Version
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

King James Bible
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won't cause my brother to fall.

International Standard Version
Therefore, if food that I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from stumbling.

NET Bible
For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

American Standard Version
Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

English Revised Version
Wherefore, if meat maketh my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I make not my brother to stumble.

Young's Literal Translation
wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.
















Cross References
Matthew 17:27
Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Romans 14:13
Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

Romans 14:21
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

1 Corinthians 10:32
Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

2 Corinthians 6:3
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:

2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

1 Corinthians 8:12
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:11
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

1 Corinthians 8:10
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
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