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1 Corinthians 8 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:1 - Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:2 - Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:3 - But whoever loves God is known by God.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:4 - So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:5 - For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:6 - yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:7 - But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:8 - But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:9 - Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:10 - For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12 - When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:13 - Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.
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An early manuscript and another ancient witness think they have knowledge do not yet know as they ought to know. 3 But whoever loves truly knows.
An early manuscript and another ancient witness think they have knowledge do not yet know as they ought to know. 3 But whoever loves truly knows.
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