Cross references

1 Corinthians 8:9

Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:9 BSB

1 Corinthians 8:9 has 23 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Galatians 5:13 (18 votes) and Romans 14:20–21 (14 votes). 25 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Leviticus 19 to Revelation 22.

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Which verses does 1 Corinthians 8:9 point to?

The 20 strongest of 23, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

  2. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block. It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

  3. 1 Peter 2:1611 votes

    Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

  4. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

  5. Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions. For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.

  6. No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

  7. Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way. I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. …

  8. By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

  9. Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

  10. For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

  11. We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

  12. the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

  13. But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

Which verses point to 1 Corinthians 8:9?

The 10 strongest of 25.