1 Corinthians 8:1

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Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.

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  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
  • Rom 14:3 : 3 Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself am certain of you, brothers, that you are full of what is good, complete in all knowledge, able to give direction to one another.
  • Isa 5:21 : 21 Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,
  • Num 25:2 : 2 For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.
  • 1 Cor 8:10-11 : 10 For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images? 11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.
  • 1 Cor 10:19-22 : 19 Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything? 20 What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits. 21 It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits. 22 Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?
  • 1 Cor 10:28 : 28 But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:
  • 1 Cor 13:1-9 : 1 If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell. 2 And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me. 4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; 5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; 6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; 7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things. 8 Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end. 9 For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true: 10 But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary. 11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child. 12 For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me. 13 But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
  • Rom 12:16 : 16 Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
  • Acts 15:19-20 : 19 For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God; 20 But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.
  • 1 Cor 1:5 : 5 So that in him you have wealth in all things, in word and in knowledge of every sort;
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
  • 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 Now some are full of pride, as if I was not coming to you.
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;
  • Rom 14:10 : 10 But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.
  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.
  • Rom 14:22 : 22 The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.

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  • 1 Cor 8:2-4
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    2 If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

    3 But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

    4 So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
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    7 Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.

    8 But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

    9 But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

    10 For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

    11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.

    12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

    13 For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

  • 1 Cor 13:7-9
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    7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

    8 Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

    9 For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true:

  • 1 Cor 12:1-2
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    1 But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.

    2 You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

  • 1 Cor 13:1-4
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    1 If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

    2 And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

    3 And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

    4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

  • 2 Cor 8:7-8
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    7 And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

    8 I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

  • 2 Pet 1:6-8
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    6 And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

    7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

    8 For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19 It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

  • 1 Cor 14:1
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    1 Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

  • Phil 1:9
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    9 And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;

  • 1 Cor 10:23
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    23 We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14 Let all you do be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 1:5
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    5 So that in him you have wealth in all things, in word and in knowledge of every sort;

  • 1 Cor 12:8
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    8 For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit:

  • 1 Cor 2:16
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    16 For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord, so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19 So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.

  • 1 Cor 13:13
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    13 But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8 For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:

  • 1 Cor 10:19
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    19 Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

  • 2 Pet 1:3
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    3 Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;

  • Rom 15:14
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    14 And I myself am certain of you, brothers, that you are full of what is good, complete in all knowledge, able to give direction to one another.

  • 1 John 4:7-8
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    7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

    8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

  • Rom 15:1
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    1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6 But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

  • 1 Cor 14:12
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    12 So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8 And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

  • 1 Cor 14:38
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    38 But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.

  • 1 Cor 14:17
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    17 For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.

  • 2 Cor 8:1
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    1 And now we give you news, brothers, about the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia;

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4 He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

  • Col 1:9
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    9 For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,