8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 8:9 — But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
• 1Cor 8:13 — Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
• 1Cor 10:29 — Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?
• 1Cor 10:33 — Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
• 1Cor 11:22 — What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
• 1Cor 11:22 — What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
• 1Tim 3:5 — (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
• 1Tim 3:7 — Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
• 1Tim 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• 2Cor 6:3 — Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
• 2Cor 6:3 — Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
• Acts 20:28 — Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
• Acts 20:28 — Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
• Acts 24:16 — And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
• Isa 57:14 — And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
• Luke 17:1 — Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
• Matt 15:12 — Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
• Matt 17:27 — Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: tha
• Matt 18:6 — But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
• Phil 1:10 — That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
• Phil 2:4 — Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
• Phil 3:17 — Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
• Rom 14:13 — Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
• Rom 14:13 — Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
• Ruth 3:14 — And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.