5 occurrences

'Idols' in the Bible

About food offered to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.

Verse ConceptsAcademicsPride, OriginArrogance, In The ChurchBuilding Up The ChurchKnowingDrawbacks To Knowledge

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Unity OfMonotheismOne GodIdols Not ExistingUseless IdolsNon ExistenceNo Other Is GodFood For Other godsGod Is OneSacrificesEating Meatstatues

For if someone sees you, the one who has this knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged to eat food offered to idols?

Verse ConceptsKnowingFood For Other godsWeaknessEating Meatconscience

What am I saying then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Verse ConceptsIdolatryFood For Other godsOccultism Being Forbidden

You know that when you were pagans, you used to be led off to the idols that could not speak.

Verse ConceptsDumbnessMutenessPagansPolytheismCarrying IdolsDumbdiscriminationstatuesHinduism

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