1 Corinthians 8:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 8:9-9 : 9 But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak. 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?
  • 1 Cor 10:28-29 : 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: 29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why should my liberty be judged by another man's conscience?
  • Rom 14:22-23 : 22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in what he approves. 23 But whoever doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.
  • 1 Cor 1:10-11 : 10 Now I plead with you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.

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  • 1 Cor 8:8-13
    6 verses
    86%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 8:1-6
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    79%

    1Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

    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.

    5For though there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

    6Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through Him we live.

  • 1 Cor 10:27-29
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    27If any of those who do not believe invite you to a meal, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.

    28But 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:

    29Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why should my liberty be judged by another man's conscience?

  • Rom 14:20-23
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    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.

    21It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.

    22Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

    23But whoever doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

  • Rom 14:1-3
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    1Accept the one who is weak in faith, but not to engage in contentious debates.

    2For one believes he may eat all things, but another, who is weak, eats only herbs.

    3Let 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 14:13-15
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    13Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this instead: that no one puts a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

    14I 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.

    15But if your brother is grieved with your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

  • 1 Cor 10:25
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    25Whatever is sold in the market, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake:

  • Titus 1:15
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    15To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

  • 1 Cor 10:18-19
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    18Consider Israel after the flesh: are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

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

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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    7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

  • Rom 14:5-6
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    5One person values one day over another; another values every day alike. Let each person be fully convinced in their own mind.

    6He who regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he who does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

  • Gal 4:8
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    8However, then, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.

  • Mark 7:18-19
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    18And he said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,

    19Because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, purging all foods?

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:

  • 1 Cor 12:2
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    2You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these mute idols, even as you were led.

  • Rom 2:15
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    15Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts alternately accusing or else excusing each other;)

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

    17If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

  • Acts 21:25
    67%

    25As 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.

  • Acts 15:20
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    20But that we write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

  • Heb 13:10
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    10We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • 1 Cor 6:11-13
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    11And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

    12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

    13Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Rom 10:2
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    2For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • Acts 15:29
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    29that 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.