1 Corinthians 8:1

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Now{G1161} concerning things sacrificed to idols:{G1494} We{G2192} know{G1492} that{G3754} we{G2192} all{G3956} have{G2192} knowledge.{G1108} Knowledge{G1108} puffeth up,{G5448} but{G1161} love{G26} edifieth.{G3618}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Now{G1161} as touching{G4012} things offered unto idols{G1494}, we know{G1492}{(G5758)} that{G3754} we all{G3956} have{G2192}{(G5719)} knowledge{G1108}. Knowledge{G1108} puffeth up{G5448}{(G5719)}, but{G1161} charity{G26} edifieth{G3618}{(G5719)}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    To speake of thinges dedicate vnto ydols we are sure that we all have knowledge. knowledge maketh a man swell: bnt love edifieth.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    As touchinge thinges offred vnto Idols we are sure yt we all haue knowlege. Knowlege puffeth a ma vp, but loue edifyeth.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And as touching things sacrificed vnto idols, wee knowe that wee all haue knowledge: knowledge puffeth vp, but loue edifieth.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    As touching thinges offred vnto idols, we are sure yt we all haue knowledge. Knowledge maketh a man swell: but loue edifieth.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Food Sacrificed to Idols With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that“we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 However, not everyone knows this. Some, being accustomed to idols until now, eat it as if it were truly food offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 So then, concerning eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and there is no God but one.
  • Rom 14:3 : 3 The one who eats must not look down on the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, for God has accepted them.
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
  • Isa 5:21 : 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight!
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you: You have those there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites—to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching, she misleads my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 From him the whole body, being joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one disqualify you by delighting in false humility and the worship of angels, dwelling on things he has not seen, being puffed up without reason by his fleshly mind.
  • Num 25:2 : 2 The women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
  • 1 Cor 8:10-11 : 10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols? 11 So the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
  • 1 Cor 10:19-22 : 19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to idols is anything? 20 No, but what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons. 22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He is?
  • 1 Cor 10:28 : 28 But if someone says to you, 'This has been offered in sacrifice,' then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-9 : 1 If I speak in the tongues of people and of angels, but do not have love, I am like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give everything I have to the poor and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not become conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
  • Rom 12:16 : 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 You felt secure in your wickedness and said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and your knowledge have led you astray, and you said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.'
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now then, why are you testing God by placing a yoke on the necks of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
  • Acts 15:19-20 : 19 Therefore, my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood.
  • 1 Cor 1:5 : 5 That in every way you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored!
  • 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 Some of you have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have mourned so that the one who has done this would be removed from among you?
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.
  • Rom 14:10 : 10 But you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.
  • Rom 14:22 : 22 Do you have faith? Keep it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-4
    3 verses
    85%

    2 If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.

    3 But if anyone loves God, they are known by Him.

    4 So then, concerning eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and there is no God but one.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
    7 verses
    78%

    7 However, not everyone knows this. Some, being accustomed to idols until now, eat it as if it were truly food offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8 Food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

    9 But be careful that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10 For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won’t their weak conscience be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols?

    11 So the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

    12 When you sin in this way against your brothers and sisters and wound their weak consciences, you are sinning against Christ.

    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

  • 1 Cor 13:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

    8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

    9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

  • 1 Cor 12:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Now, concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be unaware.

    2 You know that when you were Gentiles, you were led to speechless idols, however you were led.

  • 1 Cor 13:1-4
    4 verses
    71%

    1 If I speak in the tongues of people and of angels, but do not have love, I am like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

    2 If I have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

    3 If I give everything I have to the poor and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

    4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
    71%

    6 Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.

  • 2 Cor 8:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in the love we inspired in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

    8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.

  • 2 Pet 1:6-8
    3 verses
    70%

    6 to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness;

    7 to godliness, brotherly love; and to brotherly love, love.

    8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 12:19
    69%

    19 Again, do you think that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking before God in Christ, and all these things, beloved, are for your edification.

  • 1 Cor 14:1
    69%

    1 Pursue love, and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

  • Phil 1:9
    68%

    9 And this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight.

  • 1 Cor 10:23
    68%

    23 Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
    68%

    14 Let all that you do be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 1:5
    68%

    5 That in every way you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,

  • 1 Cor 12:8
    68%

    8 To one, a message of wisdom is given through the Spirit; to another, a message of knowledge by the same Spirit;

  • 1 Cor 2:16
    68%

    16 For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

  • Rom 14:19
    68%

    19 So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

  • 1 Cor 13:13
    68%

    13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
    67%

    8 Even if I boast a little more about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

  • 1 Cor 10:19
    67%

    19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or that food sacrificed to idols is anything?

  • 2 Pet 1:3
    67%

    3 His divine power has granted us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

  • Rom 15:14
    67%

    14 I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

  • 1 John 4:7-8
    2 verses
    67%

    7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

  • Rom 15:1
    67%

    1 We who are strong ought to bear with the weaknesses of those who are weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • 2 Cor 11:6
    67%

    6 Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this clear to you in every way and in all things.

  • 1 Cor 14:12
    67%

    12 So with yourselves, since you are eager for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.

  • 1 Pet 4:8
    67%

    8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

  • 1 Cor 14:38
    67%

    38 But if anyone ignores this, let them remain ignorant.

  • 1 Cor 14:17
    67%

    17 You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not built up.

  • 2 Cor 8:1
    67%

    1 Now we want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia.

  • 1 Tim 6:4
    66%

    4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments about words, which result in envy, strife, slander, and evil suspicions.

  • Col 1:9
    66%

    9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,

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