1 Corinthians 8:12
New International Version
When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

New Living Translation
And when you sin against other believers by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong, you are sinning against Christ.

English Standard Version
Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

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

Berean Literal Bible
And thus sinning against the brothers and wounding their being weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

King James Bible
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

New King James Version
But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

New American Standard Bible
And so, by sinning against the brothers and sisters and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

NASB 1995
And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

NASB 1977
And thus, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Legacy Standard Bible
And in that way, by sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Amplified Bible
And when you sin against the brothers and sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience [by confusing them], you sin against Christ.

Christian Standard Bible
Now when you sin like this against brothers and sisters and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now when you sin like this against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.

American Standard Version
And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if in this way you subvert your brethren and tread on the conscience of the sickly, you commit an offense against The Messiah.

Contemporary English Version
When you sin by hurting a follower with a weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now when you sin thus against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

English Revised Version
And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When you sin against other believers in this way and harm their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

Good News Translation
And in this way you will be sinning against Christ by sinning against other Christians and wounding their weak conscience.

International Standard Version
When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against the Messiah.

Literal Standard Version
And thus sinning in regard to the brothers, and striking their weak conscience—you sin in regard to Christ;

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

New American Bible
When you sin in this way against your brothers and wound their consciences, weak as they are, you are sinning against Christ.

NET Bible
If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

New Revised Standard Version
But when you thus sin against members of your family, and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

New Heart English Bible
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation
But when ye thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

Weymouth New Testament
Moreover when you thus sin against the brethren and wound their weak consciences, you are, in reality, sinning against Christ.

World English Bible
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Young's Literal Translation
and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;

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Context
Food Sacrificed to Idols
11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.…

Cross References
Matthew 18:6
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 25:45
Then the King will answer, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.'

Mark 9:42
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.

Luke 17:2
It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Romans 14:20
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.


Treasury of Scripture

But when you sin so against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

when.

Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.

Exodus 32:21
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?

ye sin against.

1 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

Exodus 16:8
And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.

Matthew 12:49,50
And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! …

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1 Corinthians 8
1. To abstain from food offered to idols.
8. We must not abuse our Christian liberty, to the offense of our brothers;
11. but must bridle our knowledge with charity.














(12) When ye sin so.--When you sin in this way--and he explains further what the sin is: "Striking a blow upon their weak consciences"--you sin against Christ. You wound a member of that body which is His. (See Matthew 25:40.)

Verse 12. - And wound their weak conscience; rather, and in smiting their conseience which is weak. "What," asks St. Chrysostom, "can be more ruthless than a man who strikes one who is sick?" Was it not a cowardly exercise of liberty to strike the conscience of the defenceless? It is another form of "defiling" (ver. 7) the conscience, but brings out the cruelty of such conduct. Ye sin against Christ. Because Christ lives and suffers in the persons of the least of his little ones (Matthew 25:40, 45; Romans 12:5, etc.).

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Greek
By sinning
ἁμαρτάνοντες (hamartanontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 264: Perhaps from a and the base of meros; properly, to miss the mark, i.e. to err, especially to sin.

against
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

[your]
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

brothers
ἀδελφοὺς (adelphous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 80: A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

in this way
οὕτως (houtōs)
Adverb
Strong's 3779: Thus, so, in this manner. Or (referring to what precedes or follows).

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

wounding
τύπτοντες (typtontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5180: To beat, strike, wound, inflict punishment.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

weak
ἀσθενοῦσαν (asthenousan)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 770: To be weak (physically: then morally), To be sick. From asthenes; to be feeble.

conscience,
συνείδησιν (syneidēsin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4893: The conscience, a persisting notion. From a prolonged form of suneido; co-perception, i.e. Moral consciousness.

you sin
ἁμαρτάνετε (hamartanete)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 264: Perhaps from a and the base of meros; properly, to miss the mark, i.e. to err, especially to sin.

against
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

Christ.
Χριστὸν (Christon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.


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