|
1 Now concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone thinks to known anything, he does not yet know as it is necessary to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him. 4 Therefore concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God except one. 5 For even if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—just as there are many gods and many lords— 6 yet to us there is one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through Him. 7 But the knowledge is not in all. And some, by habit of the idol until now, eat such as a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak, it is defiled. 8 But food will not commend us to God; neither if we should eat do we fall short, nor if we should not eat do we excel. 9 But take care, lest somehow this authority of yours? become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if anyone should see you, the one having knowledge, reclining in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him being weak be built up to eat the things sacrificed to idols? 1 Corinthians 8:1-10, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
|
