Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth , lest I make my brother to offend.
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend,.... This is the conclusion of the whole, which the apostle makes with respect to himself, and proposes for the imitation of others; that since an imprudent…
Barnes' Notes
Wherefore - As the conclusion of the whole matter. If meat ... - Paul here proposes his own views and feelings, or tells them how he would act in order to show them how they should act in these…
Adam Clarke
Wherefore, etc. - Rather than give any occasion to a Christian to sin against and so to harden his conscience that he should return to idolatry and perish, I would not only abstain from all meats…
The apostle, having granted, and indeed confirmed, the opinion of some among the Corinthians, that idols were nothing, proceeds now to show them that their inference from this assumption was not just,…
Cambridge Bible
I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend "This abridgment of their liberty is a duty more especially incumbent on all who are possessed of influence." Robertson.…
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