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1 Corinthians - Chapter 8

	1Cr 8:1	Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge [fn]makes arrogant, but love edifies.
	1Cr 8:2	If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;
	1Cr 8:3	but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
	1Cr 8:4	Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that [fn]there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.
	1Cr 8:5	For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,
	1Cr 8:6	yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
	1Cr 8:7	However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
	1Cr 8:8	But food will not [fn]commend us to God; we are neither [fn]the worse if we do not eat, nor [fn]the better if we do eat.
	1Cr 8:9	But take care that this [fn]liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
	1Cr 8:10	For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
	1Cr 8:11	For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
	1Cr 8:12	And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
	1Cr 8:13	Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

NASB Footnotes:

(8:1) Literally: puffs up
(8:4) Literally: nothing is an idol in the world; i.e. an idol has no real existence
(8:8) Or, present
(8:8) Literally: lacking
(8:8) Literally: abounding
(8:9) Literally: right

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