1 Corinthians 8:1

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Summary

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

Touching

We all

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Touching

For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you, who know better, eating in an idol's temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won't he?

Am I suggesting that an offering made to idols means anything, or that an idol itself means anything?

who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed and then worshipped their gods.

So why do you test God by putting on the disciples' neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?

As for the gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our decision that they should keep away from food that has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality."

But I have a few things against you: You have there some who hold to the teaching of Balaam, the one who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality.

We all

If anyone thinks he really knows something, he has not yet learned it as he ought to know it.

For by him you have become rich in every way in speech and knowledge of every kind

We are fools for the Messiah's sake, but you are wise in the Messiah. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.

Come back to your senses as you should, and stop sinning! For some of you I say this to your shame don't fully know God.

I know and have been persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in and of itself, but it is unclean to a person who thinks it is unclean.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels cheat you out of the prize by rejoicing about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up for no reason by his carnal mind.

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A declaration from one who hears what God has to say, who knows what the Most High knows, who saw the vision that the Almighty revealed, who keeps stumbling with open eyes.

What you know, I know, too; I'm not inferior to you.

I am talking to sensible people. Apply what I am saying to yourselves.

Everything you do should be done lovingly.