1 Corinthians 8:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 However, not everyone has this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
  • Rom 14:3 : 3 Let not the one who eats despise the one who does not eat, and let not the one who does not eat judge the one who eats; for God has accepted him.
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself am also persuaded of you, my brethren, that you are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
  • Isa 5:21 : 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things 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, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
  • Num 25:2 : 2 And they called 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 anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols? 11 And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
  • 1 Cor 10:19-22 : 19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
  • 1 Cor 10:28 : 28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," do not eat it for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience' sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:
  • 1 Cor 13:1-9 : 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not proud, 5 Does not behave itself rudely, does not seek its own, is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs; 6 Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 As for the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, except only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
  • Rom 12:16 : 16 Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is none else besides me.'
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now therefore why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Acts 15:19-20 : 19 Therefore, my judgment is that we should not trouble those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20 But that we write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
  • 1 Cor 1:5 : 5 That in everything you are enriched by him, in all speech, and in all knowledge;
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.
  • 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 Now some are puffed up as though I were not coming to you.
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And you are arrogant, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you.
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
  • Rom 14:10 : 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
  • Rom 14:22 : 22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

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    2And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

    3But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

    4Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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    7However, not everyone has this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

    9But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

    11And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

    12But when you sin against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

    13Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.

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    7Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

    8Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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

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    3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

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    7Therefore, as you abound in everything, in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us, see that you abound in this grace also.

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    6And to knowledge self-control; and to self-control patience; and to patience godliness;

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    19What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

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