1 Corinthians 8
13 verses
Concerning food offered to idols, Paul begins with the principle that knowledge puffs up but love builds up; if anyone supposes they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know. An idol is nothing in the world, and there is no God but one; though some call themselves gods in heaven or on earth, yet for us there is one God the Father from whom all things come and we exist for him, and one Lord Jesus Christ through whom all things exist and we exist through him. Not everyone possesses this knowledge; some have been so accustomed to idols that they eat food as food offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. Food will not bring us closer to God; whether we eat or do not eat, we are neither better off if we eat nor worse off if we abstain. But Paul warns: if your liberty becomes a stumbling block to the weak, if your knowledge causes a weak brother or sister to stumble, then you wound their conscience and sin against them; therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I cause a brother to stumble.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
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Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
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And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
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For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
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But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
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Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
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But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
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But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
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For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
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And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
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But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
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Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
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