1 Corinthians 10:27

World English Bible (2000)

But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

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  • Luke 5:29-30 : 29 Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. 30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
  • Luke 10:7-8 : 7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house. 8 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
  • Luke 15:23 : 23 Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
  • 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; 10 yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. 11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
  • 2 Cor 1:13 : 13 For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 5:11 : 11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 10:28-32
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    28But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

    29Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

    30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?

    31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

    32Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

  • 1 Cor 10:25-26
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    25Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

    26for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
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    7However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

    8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

    9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

    10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

  • Luke 10:7-8
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    7Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.

    8Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

  • Rom 14:1-3
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    1Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

    2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

    3Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

  • Rom 14:20-23
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    20Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

    21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

    22Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.

    23But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

  • 1 Cor 11:33-34
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    33Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

    34But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

  • Rom 14:5-6
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    5One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

    6He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • Rom 14:13-17
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    13Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

    14I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

    15Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

    16Then don't let your good be slandered,

    17for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

  • Acts 15:29
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    29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

  • 1 Cor 10:18-20
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    18Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

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

    20But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

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

    4For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

  • Acts 21:25
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    25But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."

  • 1 Cor 11:21-22
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    21For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

    22What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

  • Luke 14:24
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    24For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.'"

  • Heb 13:9-10
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    9Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

    10We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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    7Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

  • 1 Cor 8:4
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    4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

  • Jer 16:8
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    8You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

  • Acts 10:13-14
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    13A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!"

    14But Peter said, "Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

  • Mark 7:19
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    19because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"

  • Deut 14:3
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    3You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming: