Where else did Paul say to give up a liberty for the sake of a weak believer?
Paul also gave this instruction in Romans, teaching that if a practice you consider permissible would offend or weaken a fellow believer, you should willingly forgo that liberty for their sake, prioritizing the weak brother's conscience over your own freedom.
In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul warns against wounding a weak conscience, saying that when you sin against brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. He concludes in verse 13, "if meat makes my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh, while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." Les points out that this is basically what Paul said back in Romans. When studying Romans, Paul said the same thing: if you feel mature enough that something won't hurt you, but it will bother the weak believer, then for his sake, don't do it. This is a lesson we can apply in many areas of life today.
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.
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Where else did Paul give the same instruction about not offending a weak believer?
Les notes that Paul taught the same principle back in Romans: if something you feel mature enough to do will not hurt you but will bother the weak believer, then for his sake don't do it.