¹ But receive° for yourselves the one who is weak in the faith, yet not $for the discernings of his reasonings.

² One has faith to eat all things, but the one who is weak eats herbs.

³ Do not let the one who eats, scorn the one who does not eat; and do not let the one who does not eat, judge the one who eats, for$ God himself has received him.

⁴ Who are you who is judging another’s domestic servant? He stands or falls to his own lord. Now, he will be made to stand up, for$ God is able to stand him up.

⁵ There is one who indeed is judging a day beside another day, but one is judging every day the same; let each one be fully assured in his own mind.

⁶ He who is mindful of the day, is mindful of it to the Lord; and he who is not mindful of the day, is not mindful of it to the Lord; and he who eats, eats to the Lord, for$ he gives-thanks to God. And he who does not eat, he does not eat to the Lord, and gives-thanks to God.

⁷ For$ none of us is living to himself, and none dies to himself.

⁸ For$ in both, if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; therefore, in both, if we live or if we die, we are the Lord’s.

⁹ For$ Christ both died and rose$ up and lived $for this, in-order-that he might have lordship over both the dead and those living.

¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you also, why do you scorn your brother? For$ we will all be standing-before the judicial-seat of Christ.

¹¹ For$ it has been written, ‘As I live, says the Lord, Every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess to God.’ {Isa 45:23}

¹² Therefore, consequently$, each of us will be giving an account concerning himself to God.

¹³ Therefore, we should no longer judge° one another, but rather judge this: you are not to place a stumbling block, or offense, in the way of the brother.

¹⁴ I know, and have confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is desecrated {Or: unclean} through itself, except to the one counting something to be desecrated, to that one it is desecrated.

¹⁵ But if your brother is made sorrowful because of food, you are no longer walking according-to love$. Do not destroy that man with your food, on behalf of whom Christ died.

¹⁶ Therefore, do not let your° good thing be blasphemed;

¹⁷ for$ the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For$ the one who is serving$ Christ in these things is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

¹⁹ Therefore, consequently$, we may pursue the things of peace, and the things from the building up that is toward one another.

²⁰ Do not tear-down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is evil to the man who eats through a stumbling block.

²¹ It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor anything in which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weak.

²² Do you have faith? Have {English: Keep} it to yourself in God’s sight! The fortunate one is not judging himself in what he is approving.

²³ But the one doubting has been condemned if he eats, because he does not eat out-of faith, and everything which is not from faith is sin.

²⁴ Now to the one who is able to establish you° according-to my good-news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according-to the revelation of the mystery, has been kept-silent in times everlasting, 16:26 (14:25) but now, was manifested, and through the prophetic Scriptures, according-to the commandment of the everlasting God, was made known to all the nations, into the obedience of the faith; 16:27 (14:26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, in whom the glory is forever. Amen. {{ Introduction to 1 Corinthians 56-58 AD If there was a place where sin was rampant, it was Corinth. What made it worse was the attitude common today of ‘it really doesn’t matter.’ The more trash you take in, the more likely of it influencing you! Then the congregation in Corinth seemed to take everything to the extreme. They were not unified in much of anything, and full of splits, and the ‘anything goes’ policy so common to many religious groups today. A common commandment throughout all the letters was ‘In the same...’ or ‘be mindful of the same...’ but not in this congregation. Paul’s use of sarcasm is notable throughout both Corinthian letters, ‘Christ sent me not to immerse, but to proclaim the good-news’ – actually both are commands of the Lord written at the ends of Matthew and Mark with Luke adding ‘repentance and forgiveness of sins’ witnessed in Acts 2:38 ‘to be saved.’ Man’s foolishness is used by God to promote His purpose as in 4:10, “We are foolish because of Christ, but you° are prudent in Christ.” and this sarcasm appears in many more places. Then in chapter 2, Paul goes from foolishness of man to wisdom of man vs. God’s wisdom, which progresses onward to the spiritual things. In chapter 3, Paul calls them babies and fleshly. Then he talks about the foundation (Jesus) that he and Apollos built, and warns them to build properly upon it. Because even if Paul’s work with the Corinthians fails at judgment day, Paul is still saved as though he walked through the fire. In chapter 4 and 9, Paul calls them arrogant because they are judging him. They have everything, even reign like kings; they do not need Paul. In chapter 5, a man was fornicating with his stepmother. Instead of disciplining him (so that he might be saved and not spend eternity apart from them), they just do not care! This ‘leavening’ could have ruined the batch of them, and they just did not get it. Then (chapter 6) they had lawsuits against each other. Paul finally lists all of their past sins (possibly current ones) and tells them no one who practices them will inherit heaven. The Corinthians thought you could be like the world and still be in the Lord’s body at the same time. Chapter 7 deals with marriage and the unmarried. Then in Chapters 8 and 10, they add idol-sacrifices to the list. Also in Chapters 10 and 11, it was pointed out how they were abusing the Lord’s Supper and the love feast versus how it should be respected. We know from Acts 20:7 that the Lord’s Supper is one of the reasons the congregations come together every Sunday. Chapters 12, 13, 14 talk about the spiritual gifts that Christians had during the first century, gifts used to evangelize the world (Mark 16:15-20). In 13:10, Paul tells them the completed word will stop all of this so concentrate on love which never fails. Once again, the Corinthians took this to extremes as with everything else they did. In 15, Adam and Jesus are compared, and the last part talks about the time when Jesus will come back describing how ‘in the blink of an eye’ we will inherit our heavenly bodies. In 16, he concludes with his typical greetings and encouragements.} }

²⁵ but now, was manifested, and through the prophetic Scriptures, according-to the commandment of the everlasting God, was made known to all the nations, into the obedience of the faith;

²⁶ to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, in whom the glory is forever. Amen.