1 Corinthians 10:28

World English Bible (2000)

But 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."

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  • Exod 9:29 : 29 Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh's.
  • Deut 10:14 : 14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.
  • Jer 27:5-6 : 5 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me. 6 Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him.
  • Matt 6:31-32 : 31 "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?' 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 Yet 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.
  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 However, 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.
  • 1 Cor 8:10-13 : 10 For 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? 11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.
  • 1 Cor 10:26 : 26 for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."

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  • 1 Cor 10:25-27
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    25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

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

    27 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.

  • 1 Cor 10:29-32
    4 verses
    81%

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

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

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

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

  • 1 Cor 8:7-10
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    7 However, 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.

    8 But 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.

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

    10 For 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?

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

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

    20 But 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 Cor 8:4-5
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    4 Therefore 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.

    5 For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"

  • Rom 14:20-23
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    73%

    20 Don'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.

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

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

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

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

    6 He 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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    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • Ps 24:1
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    1 The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

  • Rom 14:14-16
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    70%

    14 I 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.

    15 Yet 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.

    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • Rom 14:2-3
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    2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

    3 Don'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.

  • Acts 15:29
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    29 that 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 Tim 4:3-4
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    3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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

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

  • Ps 50:12
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    12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
    67%

    13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Num 18:10
    67%

    10 You shall eat of it like the most holy things. Every male shall eat of it. It shall be holy to you.

  • Deut 12:25
    67%

    25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • Deut 8:10
    67%

    10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

  • Lev 22:14
    67%

    14 "'If a man eats something holy unwittingly, then he shall add the fifth part of its value to it, and shall give the holy thing to the priest.

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

  • Lev 19:8
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    8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

  • 1 Cor 11:34
    66%

    34 But 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.

  • Exod 34:15
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    15 "Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

  • Lev 17:8
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    8 "You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • 1 Cor 10:7
    66%

    7 Neither 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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    8 Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

  • Lev 27:30
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    30 "'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh.

  • Lev 22:30
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    30 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am Yahweh.

  • Lev 10:13
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    13 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: for so I am commanded.

  • Lev 3:16
    66%

    16 The priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire, for a pleasant aroma; all the fat is Yahweh's.