1 Corinthians 8:7

1 Corinthians 8:7

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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I Corinthians 8:7 [There is] not in every man that knowledge. While "we", the better informed, know better, still there were some in the church who had not entirely outgrown their former superstitions. They could not realize that an "idol was nothing" (I Corinthians 8:4). Their conscience being weak is defiled. Meat that came from idol sacrifice was to them the meat of the idol. They could not eat it without their conscience being "defiled".

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