1 Corinthians 10:28

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But if someone says to you,“This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience–

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  • Exod 9:29 : 29 Moses said to him,“When I leave the city I will spread my hands to the LORD, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD.
  • Deut 10:14 : 14 The heavens– indeed the highest heavens– belong to the LORD your God, as does the earth and everything in it.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 A psalm of David. The LORD owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.
  • Jer 27:5-6 : 5 “I made the earth and the people and animals on it by my mighty power and great strength, and I give it to whomever I see fit. 6 I have at this time placed all these nations of yours under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made all the wild animals subject to him.
  • Matt 6:31-32 : 31 So then, don’t worry saying,‘What will we eat?’ or‘What will we drink?’ or‘What will we wear?’ 32 For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 8:10-13 : 10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be“strengthened” to eat food offered to idols? 11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed. 12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
  • 1 Cor 10:26 : 26 for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

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  • 1 Cor 10:25-27
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    25Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

    26for the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.

    27If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

  • 1 Cor 10:29-32
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    29I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

    30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food that I give thanks for?

    31So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

    32Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
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    7But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

    8Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

    9But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

    10For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be“strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?

  • 1 Cor 10:18-20
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    18Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

    19Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

    20No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

  • 1 Cor 8:4-5
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    4With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”

    5If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth(as there are many gods and many lords),

  • Rom 14:20-23
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    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

    21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

    22The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

    23But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

  • Rom 14:5-6
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    5One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. Each must be fully convinced in his own mind.

    6The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

  • Ps 24:1
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    1A psalm of David. The LORD owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.

  • Rom 14:14-16
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    14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

    15For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

    16Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

  • Rom 14:2-3
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    2One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

    3The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

  • Acts 15:29
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    29that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

  • 1 Tim 4:3-4
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    3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

    4For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

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

  • Ps 50:12
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    12Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • Num 18:10
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    10You are to eat it as a most holy offering; every male may eat it. It will be holy to you.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.

  • Deut 8:10
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    10You will eat your fill and then praise the LORD your God because of the good land he has given you.

  • Lev 22:14
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    14“‘If a man eats a holy offering by mistake, he must add one fifth to it and give the holy offering to the priest.

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Lev 19:8
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    8and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from his people.

  • 1 Cor 11:34
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    34If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you assemble it does not lead to judgment. I will give directions about other matters when I come.

  • Exod 34:15
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    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

  • Lev 17:8
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    8“You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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    7So do 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.”

  • Luke 10:8
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    8Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.

  • Lev 27:30
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    30Redemption of the Tithe“‘Any tithe of the land, from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

  • Lev 22:30
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    30On that very day it must be eaten; you must not leave any part of it over until morning. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 10:13
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    13You must eat it in a holy place because it is your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from the gifts of the LORD, for this is what I have been commanded.

  • Lev 3:16
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    16Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD.