1 Corinthians 8:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

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  • 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 but not in all men `is' the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat `it', and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol `is' nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;
  • Rom 14:3 : 3 let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 And I am persuaded, my brethren -- I myself also -- concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;
  • Isa 5:21 : 21 Wo `to' the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own faces -- intelligent!
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say `it'.
  • Eph 4:16 : 16 from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and `in' worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,
  • Num 25:2 : 2 and they call for the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people eat, and bow themselves to their gods,
  • 1 Cor 8:10-11 : 10 for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols, 11 and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?
  • 1 Cor 10:19-22 : 19 what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? -- 20 `no,' but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons. 21 Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons; 22 do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?
  • 1 Cor 10:28 : 28 and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed `it', and of the conscience, for the Lord's `is' the earth and its fulness:
  • 1 Cor 13:1-9 : 1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; 3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing. 4 The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, 6 rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; 7 all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth. 8 The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; 9 for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; 10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which `is' in part shall become useless. 11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; 12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
  • Acts 21:25 : 25 `And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;
  • Rom 12:16 : 16 of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 And thou art confident in thy wickedness, Thou hast said, `There is none seeing me,' Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It is turning thee back, And thou sayest in thy heart, `I `am', and none else.'
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Acts 15:19-20 : 19 wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God, 20 but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
  • 1 Cor 1:5 : 5 that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 we `are' fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we `are' ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;
  • 1 Cor 4:18 : 18 And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Not good `is' your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;
  • Rom 14:10 : 10 And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ;
  • Rom 14:14 : 14 I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is' unclean;
  • Rom 14:22 : 22 Thou hast faith! to thyself have `it' before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

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  • 1 Cor 8:2-4
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    2and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;

    3and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

    4Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol `is' nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

  • 1 Cor 8:7-13
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    7but not in all men `is' the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat `it', and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

    8But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

    9but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

    10for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

    11and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?

    12and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;

    13wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

  • 1 Cor 13:7-9
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    7all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

    8The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

    9for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

  • 1 Cor 12:1-2
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    1And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

    2ye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols -- as ye were led -- being carried away;

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    1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

    2and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

    3and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

    4The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

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    7but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

    8not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

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    6and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

    7and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

    8for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 2 Cor 12:19
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    19Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

  • 1 Cor 14:1
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    1Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

  • Phil 1:9
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    9and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

  • 1 Cor 10:23
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    23All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

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    14let all your things be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 1:5
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    5that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

  • 1 Cor 12:8
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    8for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

  • 1 Cor 2:16
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    16for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

  • 1 Cor 13:13
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    13and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.

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    8for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

  • 1 Cor 10:19
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    19what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

  • 2 Pet 1:3
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    3As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,

  • Rom 15:14
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    14And I am persuaded, my brethren -- I myself also -- concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;

  • 1 John 4:7-8
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    7Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

    8he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

  • Rom 15:1
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    1And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

  • 1 Cor 14:12
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    12so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

  • 1 Cor 14:38
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    38and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

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    17for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

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    1And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

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    4he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

  • Col 1:9
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    9Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,