1 Corinthians Chapter 8 Back Next{8:1} Now concerning things sacrificed to
idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
{8:2} But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.
{8:3} But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
{8:4} Therefore 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.
{8:5} For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the
heavens or on
earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords";
{8:6} yet 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.
{8:7} However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their
conscience, being weak, is defiled.
{8:8} But 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.
{8:9} But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
{8:10} For 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?
{8:11} And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the
brother for whose sake Christ died.
{8:12} Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
{8:13} Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
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