1 Corinthians 8:1

Concerning Food Sacrificed To Idols

¹ Now about the foods that have been sacrificed to idols: We know that every one of us has some knowledge of the matter. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. ² If a man supposes that he has already gotten some true knowledge, as yet he has not learned it as he ought to know it.

Knowledge Puffs Up

Love Edifies

Now Concerning

Things Offered to Idols

Things Sacrificed to Idols

Charity Edifieth

Food Sacrificed To Idols

Love Builds Up

Paul

1 Corinthians 8:7

But it is not in all of you that such knowledge is found. Some, because of their past habits with idols, even down to the present moment, still eat such food as was really sacrificed to an idol, and so their consciences, because they are overscrupulous, are contaminated.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So, as to eating things that have been sacrificed to idols, we are sure that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from everything that is offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the meat of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves free from these things, you will prosper. Good-by."

Romans 14:3

The man who eats anything must not look down on the man who does not do so, nor must the man who does not do so condemn the man who does, for God has fully accepted him.

Romans 15:14

As far as I am concerned about you, my brothers, I am convinced that you especially are abounding in the highest goodness, richly supplied with perfect knowledge and competent to counsel one another.

Acts 15:10

Then why do you now try to test God by putting on these disciples' necks a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we could bear?

Acts 15:19-20

So I give it as my opinion, we ought not to put difficulties in the way of the heathen who turn to God,

Acts 21:25

As for the heathen who have become believers, we have sent them our resolution that they must avoid anything that is contaminated by idols, the tasting of blood, the meat of strangled animals, and sexual immorality."

Romans 11:25

For to keep you from being self-conceited, brothers, I do not want to have a misunderstanding of this uncovered secret, that only temporary insensibility has come upon Israel until the full quota of the heathen peoples comes in,

Romans 12:16

Keep on thinking in harmony with one another. Stop being high-minded but keep on associating with lowly people. Stop being conceited.

Romans 14:10

Then why should you criticize your brother? Or, why should you look down on your brother? Surely, we shall all stand before God to be judged,

Romans 14:14

I know, and through my union with the Lord Jesus I have a clear conviction, that nothing is unclean in itself; that a thing is unclean only to the person who thinks it unclean.

Romans 14:22

On your part, you must exercise your faith by the standard of yourself in the sight of God. Happy is the man who need not condemn himself for doing the thing that he approves.

1 Corinthians 1:5

because you have in everything been richly blessed through union with Him, with perfect expression and fullness of knowledge.

1 Corinthians 4:10

For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.

1 Corinthians 4:18

But some of you have become conceited over the thought that I am not coming to see you.

1 Corinthians 5:2

And yet, you are proud of it, instead of being sorry for it, and seeing to it that the man who has done this be removed from your membership!

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough?

1 Corinthians 8:2

If a man supposes that he has already gotten some true knowledge, as yet he has not learned it as he ought to know it.

1 Corinthians 8:10-11

For if somebody sees you, who have an intelligent view of this matter, partaking of a meal in an idol's temple, will he not be emboldened, with his overscrupulous conscience, to eat the food which has been sacrificed to an idol?

1 Corinthians 10:19-22

Then what do I mean? That the sacrifice to an idol is a reality, or that an idol itself is a reality? Of course not!

1 Corinthians 10:28

But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered as a heathen sacrifice," make it your rule not to eat it, for the sake of the man who warned you and for conscience' sake;

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

If I could speak the languages of men, of angels too, and have no love, I am only a rattling pan or a clashing cymbal.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up, as is right, and stop sinning, for some of you -- to your shame I say so -- are without any true knowledge of God.

Ephesians 4:16

For it is under His direction that the whole body is perfectly adjusted and united by every joint that furnishes its supplies; and by the proper functioning of each particular part there is brought about the growing of the body for its building up in love.

Colossians 2:18

Stop letting anyone, in gratuitous humility and worship of angels, defraud you as an umpire, for such a one is taking his stand on the mere visions he has seen, and is groundlessly conceited over his sensuous mind.

Revelation 2:14

Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some who are clinging to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to set a trap for the children of Israel, to entice them to eat the meat that had been sacrificed to idols and to commit immoral practices.

Revelation 2:20

But I hold it against you that you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who claims to be a prophetess, and by her teaching is misleading my slaves to practice immorality and to eat meat that has been sacrificed to idols.