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1Cr 8:1 — Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

touching		1Cr 8:10; 1Cr 10:19-22,28; Num 25:2; Act 15:10,19,20,29; Act 21:25; Rev 2:14,20
we all		1Cr 8:2,4,7,11; 1Cr 1:5; 1Cr 4:10; 1Cr 13:2; 1Cr 14:20; 1Cr 15:34; Rom 14:14,22; Col 2:18
Knowledge		1Cr 4:18; 1Cr 5:2,6; 1Cr 13:4; Isa 5:21; Isa 47:10; Rom 11:25; Rom 12:16; Rom 14:3,10
but		1Cr 13:1-13; Eph 4:16

Correlating Passages

touching

	1Cr 8:10	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;
	1Cr 10:19	What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
	1Cr 10:20	But I [say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
	1Cr 10:21	Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
	1Cr 10:22	Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
	1Cr 10:28	But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
	Num 25:2	And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
	Act 15:10	Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
	Act 15:19	Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
	Act 15:20	But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.
	Act 15:29	That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
	Act 21:25	As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written [and] concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from [things] offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
	Rev 2:14	But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
	Rev 2:20	Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

we all

	1Cr 8:2	And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
	1Cr 8:4	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.
	1Cr 8:7	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.
	1Cr 8:11	And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
	1Cr 1:5	That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and [in] all knowledge;
	1Cr 4:10	We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye [are] wise in Christ; we [are] weak, but ye [are] strong; ye [are] honourable, but we [are] despised.
	1Cr 13:2	And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
	1Cr 14:20	Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
	1Cr 15:34	Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak [this] to your shame.
	Rom 14:14	I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.
	Rom 14:22	Hast thou faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Happy [is] he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
	Col 2:18	Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Knowledge

	1Cr 4:18	Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
	1Cr 5:2	And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
	1Cr 5:6	Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
	1Cr 13:4	Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
	Isa 5:21	Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
	Isa 47:10	For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me.
	Rom 11:25	For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
	Rom 12:16	[Be] of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
	Rom 14:3	Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
	Rom 14:10	But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

but

	1Cr 13:1	Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
	1Cr 13:2	And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
	1Cr 13:3	And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
	1Cr 13:4	Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
	1Cr 13:5	Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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	Eph 4:16	From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

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Scott, Thomas. "1 Corinthians 8:1," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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