And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
Parallel translations
- KJV And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
- BSB So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
- NKJV And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
- NASB For through your knowledge the one who is weak is ruined, the brother or sister for whose sake Christ died.
- NLT So because of your superior knowledge, a weak believer for whom Christ died will be destroyed.
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Cross-references · 5
- Rom 14:15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
- Rom 15:1–3Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
- 1 Cor 8:13Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
- 1 Cor 10:33even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.
- Rom 14:20–21Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
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