1 Corinthians 8
World English Bible (WEB) • 13 verses
1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Related1 Corinthians 8:7 · Isaiah 5:21 · Romans 14:3 · 1 Corinthians 8:4 · Revelation 2:14 · Romans 15:14
2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
Related1 Corinthians 13:12 · 1 Corinthians 3:18 · Proverbs 26:12 · Galatians 6:3 · 1 Timothy 6:3-4 · 1 Corinthians 13:8-9
3But anyone who loves God is known by him.
RelatedRevelation 3:8-9 · Exodus 33:17 · Nahum 1:7 · 2 Timothy 2:19 · 1 Corinthians 2:9 · Galatians 4:9
4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
RelatedDeuteronomy 4:39 · Ephesians 4:6 · Deuteronomy 6:4 · 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 · Isaiah 41:24 · 1 Timothy 2:5
5For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
RelatedGalatians 4:8 · 2 Thessalonians 2:4 · Jeremiah 2:28 · Deuteronomy 10:17 · Jeremiah 11:13 · Jeremiah 2:11
6yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
RelatedRomans 11:36 · John 1:3 · Malachi 2:10 · Hebrews 1:2-3 · Colossians 1:16-17 · 1 Corinthians 8:4
7However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
Related1 Corinthians 10:28-29 · Romans 14:14 · Romans 14:22-23 · 1 Corinthians 8:9-10 · 1 Corinthians 1:10-11
8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
RelatedGalatians 5:13 · Romans 14:20-21 · 1 Peter 2:16 · 2 Peter 2:19 · Romans 14:1-2 · 1 Corinthians 10:24
10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
Related1 Corinthians 10:28-29 · Romans 14:23 · 1 Corinthians 8:4 · 1 Corinthians 10:20-21 · 1 Corinthians 8:7 · 1 Corinthians 8:1-2
11And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
RelatedRomans 14:15 · Romans 15:1-3 · 1 Corinthians 8:13 · 1 Corinthians 10:33-11:1 · Romans 14:20-21
12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
RelatedMatthew 18:6 · Matthew 25:45 · 1 Corinthians 12:12 · Matthew 12:49-50 · Matthew 25:40 · Genesis 20:9
13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
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