1 Corinthians 8:1-8 ▼

1 Now, concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know because we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 If anyone thinks that he has known anything, not yet did he know it as he ought to know it;

3 but, if anyone loves God, the same has been known by Him:

4 concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

5 For, even if there are things called gods, whether in heaven, or on earth (as there are gods many, and lords many);

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 this knowledge is not in all; but some, by familiarity with the idol even until now, eat it as an idol-sacrifice; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8 But food will not commend us to God; neither, if we eat not, are we lacking; nor, if we eat, do we abound.