Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 8:1 (show verse)
Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 8:2 (show verse)
If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
1 Corinthians 8:3 (show verse)
But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.
1 Corinthians 8:4 (show verse)
Therefore concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
1 Corinthians 8:5 (show verse)
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"),
1 Corinthians 8:6 (show verse)
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we exist.
1 Corinthians 8:7 (show verse)
However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, being accustomed to idols, eat food as really sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:8 (show verse)
But food will not commend us to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
1 Corinthians 8:9 (show verse)
But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:10 (show verse)
For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
1 Corinthians 8:11 (show verse)
And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
1 Corinthians 8:12 (show verse)
Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 8:13 (show verse)
Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to fall.