1 CORINTHIANS 8:1-13
NOW
AS TOUCHING THINGS
OFFERED UNTO IDOLS,
WE KNOW
THAT WE ALL
HAVE KNOWLEDGE.
KNOWLEDGE
PUFFETH UP,
BUT
CHARITY EDIFIETH.
AND
IF ANY MAN THINK
THAT HE KNOWETH
ANY THING,
HE KNOWETH NOTHING
YET AS HE OUGHT
TO KNOW.
BUT IF
ANY MAN
LOVE GOD,
THE SAME IS
KNOWN OF HIM.
AS CONCERNING
THEREFORE THE EATING
OF THOSE THINGS
THAT ARE
OFFERED IN SACRIFICE
UNTO IDOLS,
WE KNOW THAT
AN IDOL IS NOTHING
IN THE WORLD,
AND
THAT THERE IS
NONE OTHER
GOD BUT ONE.
FOR THOUGH THERE
BE THAT ARE CALLED
gods,
WHETHER
IN HEAVEN OR IN EARTH,
(AS THERE BE
gods
MANY, AND
lords
MANY,) BUT
TO US
THERE IS ONE GOD,
THE FATHER,
OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS,
AND
WE IN HIM;
AND
ONE LORD
JESUS CHRIST,
BY WHOM ARE ALL THINGS,
AND
WE BY HIM.
HOWBEIT
THERE IS NOT
IN EVERY MAN
THAT KNOWLEDGE:
FOR SOME
WITH CONSCIENCE
OF THE IDOL
UNTO THIS HOUR
EAT IT AS A THING
OFFERED UNTO AN IDOL;
AND
THEIR CONSCIENCE
BEING WEAK
IS DEFILED.
BUT MEAT
COMMANDETH
US NOT TO GOD:
FOR NEITHER,
IF WE EAT,
ARE WE THE BETTER;
NEITHER,
IF WE EAT NOT,
ARE WE THE WORSE.
BUT
TAKE HEED
LEST BY ANY MEANS
THIS LIBERTY OF YOURS
BECOME
A STUMBLEINGBLOCK
TO THEM
THAT ARE WEAK.
FOR IF ANY MAN
SEE THEE WHICH HAST
KNOWLEDGE
SIT AT MEAT
IN THE IDOL'S TEMPLE,
SHALL NOT
THE CONSCIENCE
OF HIM WHICH IS WEAK
BE EMBOLDENED
TO EAT THOSE THINGS
WHICH ARE OFFERED
TO IDOLS;
AND
THROUGH THY KNOWLEDGE
SHALL THE WEAK
BROTHER PERISH,
FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED?
BUT
WHEN YE SIN SO
AGAINST BRETHREN,
AND
WOUND THEIR WEAK
CONSCIENCE,
YE SIN AGAINST CHRIST.
WHEREFORE,
IF MEAT
MAKE MY BROTHER
TO OFFEND,
I WILL EAT
NO FLESH
WHILE THE WORLD STANDETH,
LEST I MAKE
MY BROTHER TO OFFEND.
LOVE
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