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1 Now aconcerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have bknowledge. cKnowledge puffs up, but love edifies.  
2 And aif anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.  
3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that aan idol is nothing in the world, band that there is no other God but one.  
5 For even if there are aso-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),  
6 yet afor us there is one God, the Father, bof whom are all things, and we for Him; and cone Lord Jesus Christ, dthrough whom are all things, and ethrough whom we live.  
7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, awith consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is bdefiled.  
8 But afood does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.  
9 But abeware lest somehow this liberty of yours become ba stumbling block to those who are weak.  
10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not athe conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?  
11 And abecause of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?  
12 But awhen you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.  
13 Therefore, aif food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. 
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1 Corinthians 8:1

I Corinthians 8:1 The Duty of the String Toward Weaker Brethren SUMMARY OF I Corinthians 8: Meat Offered in Idol Temples. Not Changed Because So Offered. But Not to Be Eaten Because of Weaker Brethren. Those Having Knowledge Must Act in Love. As touching things offered to idols. Corinth, like all Greek cities, was full of temples to heathen idols. At their altars victims were constantly sacrificed, the flesh of which was afterwards eaten. The question arose whether a Christian could eat of such flesh without the sin of showing deference to an idol. Perhaps the letter to Paul had asked about this matter (I Corinthians 7:1). We all have knowledge. Some pleaded their knowledge that "an idol was nothing" (I Corinthians 8:4), not divine in any sense. Paul tells them that the question is one, not of knowledge, but of charity. Knowledge puffeth up. Those who professed to be knowing ones put on an air of superiority.




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