1 Corinthians 8:1

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

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  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 But euery man hath not knowledge: For some hauing conscience of the idol vntill this houre, eate as a thing offred vnto idols, and so their conscience being weake, is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 As concerning the eating of those thinges that are offered vnto idols, we are sure that an idoll is nothing in the worlde, and that there is none other God but one.
  • Rom 14:3 : 3 Let not hym that eateth, dispise hym that eateth not: And let not hym which eateth not, iudge hym that eateth. For God hath receaued hym.
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 I my selfe am perswaded of you my brethre, that ye also are full of goodnes, and fylled with all knowledge, able also to exhort one another.
  • Isa 5:21 : 21 Wo be vnto them that are wise in their owne syght, and thynke them selues to haue vnderstandyng.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 That ye abstayne from thynges offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication: From which yf ye kepe your selues, ye shall do well. So fare ye well.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I haue a fewe thynges agaynst thee, because thou hast there, them that maynetayne the doctrine of Balaam, whiche taught in Balacke, to put a stumblyng blocke before the chyldren of Israel, that they shoulde eate of meate dedicate vnto idols, & commit fornicatio.
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 Notwithstandyng, I haue a fewe thynges agaynst thee, because thou sufferest that woman Iesabel, which called her selfe a prophetisse, to teache, and to deceaue my seruauntes, to make them commit fornication, and to eate meates offred vp vnto idols.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake truely out of slepe, and sinne not: For some haue not the knowledge of God. I speake this to your shame.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 In whom all the body beyng coupled and knit together by euery ioynt of subministration, accordyng to the effectuall power in ye measure of euery part, maketh increase of the body, vnto the edifiyng of it selfe in loue.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no man begile you of victorie, in the humblenesse and worshippyng of Angels, intrudyng (hym selfe into those thinges) which he hath not seene, causelesse puft vp with his fleshly mynde,
  • Num 25:2 : 2 Whiche called the people vnto the sacrifice of their gods: And the people dyd eate, and bowed downe to their gods.
  • 1 Cor 8:10-11 : 10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at meate in the idols temple: shal not the conscience of him which is weake, be boldened to eate those thinges which are offred to idols, 11 And through thy knowledge shal the weake brother perishe, for whom Christe dyed?
  • 1 Cor 10:19-22 : 19 What say I then? that the idol is any thyng? Or that it which is offered to idols is any thyng? 20 Nay but this I saye that the thinges which the gentiles offer, they offer to deuyls, & not to God. And I woulde not that ye shoulde haue felowshippe with the deuils. 21 Ye can not drynke ye cup of the Lorde, and the cup of deuils. Ye can not be partakers of the Lordes table, and of the table of deuyls. 22 Either do we prouoke the Lorde to anger? Are we stronger then he?
  • 1 Cor 10:28 : 28 But yf any man say vnto you, this is offred vnto idols, eate not of it for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake. The earth is the Lordes and all that therin is.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-9 : 1 Though I speake with the tongues of men and of Angels, and haue not loue, I am as soundyng brasse, or as a tincklyng Cimball: 2 And though I coulde prophesie, and vnderstoode all secretes, and all knowledge: Yea, if I had all fayth, so that I coulde moue mountaynes out of their places, and haue not loue, I were nothyng. 3 And though I bestowe all my goodes to feede the poore, and though I geue my body that I burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothyng. 4 Loue suffreth long, and is curteous: Loue enuieth not, loue doth not frowardely, swelleth not, 5 Dealeth not dishonestlie, seeketh not her owne, is not prouoked to anger, thynketh none euyll, 6 Reioyceth not in iniquitie: bur reioyceth in the trueth: 7 Suffreth all thynges, beleueth all thynges, hopeth all thynges, endureth all thynges. 8 Though ye prophesiynges fayle, other tongues ceasse, or knowledge vanishe away, yet loue falleth neuer away. 9 For our knowledge is vnperfect, and our prophesiyng is vnperfect: 10 But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is vnperfect shalbe done away. 11 When I was a chylde, I spake as a childe, I vnderstode as a childe, I imagined as a chylde: But assoone as I was a man, I put away chyldishnesse. 12 Nowe we see in a glasse, euen in a darke speakyng: but then shall we see face to face. Nowe I knowe vnperfectly: but then shall I knowe euen as I am knowen. 13 Nowe abydeth fayth, hope, and loue, these three, but the chiefe of these is loue.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, be not chyldren in wytte: Howbeit, as concerning maliciousnesse, be chyldren: but in wytte, be perfect.
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 As touchyng the Gentiles which beleue, we haue written and concluded, that they obserue no suche thyng, saue only that they kepe them selues from thynges offered to idoles, & from blood, and from strangled, & from fornication.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I woulde not brethren, that ye shoulde be ignoraunt of this misterie, (lest ye shoulde be wyse in your owne conceiptes,) that partly blyndnesse is happened in Israel, vntyll the fulnesse of the gentiles be come in:
  • Rom 12:16 : 16 Beyng of lyke affection one towardes another, beyng not hye mynded: but makyng your selues equall to them of the lower sort. Be not wise in your owne opinions,
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickednesse, and hast said, No man seeth me: thine owne wisdome and cunning hath deceaued thee, in that thou hast sayd in thyne heart, I am alone, and without me there is none.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Nowe therfore, why tempt ye God, to put on the disciples neckes, the yoke which neither our fathers nor we were able to beare?
  • Acts 15:19-20 : 19 Wherfore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the gentiles, are turned to God: 20 But that we write vnto them, that they absteyne themselues from fylthynesse of idols, and fro fornication, and from strangled, and from blood.
  • 1 Cor 1:5 : 5 That in all thynges ye are made riche in hym, in all vtteraunce, & in all knowledge:
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christe. We are weake, but ye are stronge. Ye are honorable, but we are despised.
  • 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 Some swel as though I would come no more at you:
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And ye swell, and haue not rather sorowed, that he that hath so done this deede myght be put from among you.
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your reioycing is not good. Knowe ye not, that a litle leauen leaueneth the whole lumpe?
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 If any man thynke that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
  • Rom 14:10 : 10 But why doest thou then iudge thy brother? Either, why doest thou despise thy brother? We shalbe all brought before the iudgement seate of Christe.
  • Rom 14:14 : 14 For I knowe, and am perswaded by the Lorde Iesus, that there is nothyng common of it selfe: but vnto hym that iudgeth it to be common, to hym is it common.
  • Rom 14:22 : 22 Hast thou fayth? Haue it with thy selfe before God. Happy is he that condempneth not hym selfe in the thyng which he aloweth.

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    2If any man thynke that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

    3But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him.

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    7But euery man hath not knowledge: For some hauing conscience of the idol vntill this houre, eate as a thing offred vnto idols, and so their conscience being weake, is defiled.

    8But meate maketh vs not acceptable to God: For neither if we eate, haue we the more, neither if we eate not, haue we the lesse.

    9But take heede lest by any meanes this libertie of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.

    10For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at meate in the idols temple: shal not the conscience of him which is weake, be boldened to eate those thinges which are offred to idols,

    11And through thy knowledge shal the weake brother perishe, for whom Christe dyed?

    12When ye sinne so against the brethren, and wounde their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christe.

    13Wherefore, if meate offend my brother, I wyll eate no fleshe whyle the worlde standeth, lest I shoulde offende my brother.

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    3And though I bestowe all my goodes to feede the poore, and though I geue my body that I burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothyng.

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