1st Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 12 Holy Bible
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
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So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.
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So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
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Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
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Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
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so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.
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1st Corinthians 10 : 12 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Take heed lest he fall. The Corinthians, thinking that they stood, asserting that they all had knowledge, proud of the insight which led them to declare that "an idol is nothing in the world," were not only liable to underrate the amount of forbearance due to weaker consciences, but were also in personal danger of falling away. To them, as to the Romans, St. Paul means to say, "Be not highminded, but fear" (Romans 11:20).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Wherefore.--This is the practical conclusion of the whole matter. We are to look back on that strange record of splendid privilege and of terrible fall and learn from it the solemn lesson of self-distrust. Led forth by divinely appointed leaders, overshadowed by the Divine Presence, supported by divinely given food and drink, the vast hosts of Israel had passed from the bondage of Egypt into the glorious liberty of children of the living God; yet amid all those who seemed to stand so secure in their relation to God, but a few fell not. Christians, called forth from a more deadly bondage into a more glorious liberty, are in like peril. Let the one who thinks that he stands secure take great heed, lest he fall. The murmuring against their apostolic teachers, the longing to go so far as they could in indulgence without committing actual sin, were terribly significant indications in the Corinthian Church. When we feel ourselves beginning to dislike those who warn us against sin, and when we find ourselves measuring with minute casuistry what is the smallest distance that we can place between ourselves and some desired object of indulgence without actually sinning, then "let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall."
