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1 Corinthians 8 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Now about food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge [concerning this]. Knowledge [alone] makes [people self-righteously] arrogant, but love [that unselfishly seeks the best for others] builds up and encourages others to grow [in wisdom].

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:2 - If anyone imagines that he knows and understands anything [of divine matters, without love], he has not yet known as he ought to know.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:3 - But if anyone loves God [with awe-filled reverence, obedience and gratitude], he is known by Him [as His very own and is greatly loved].

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In this matter, then, of eating food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world [it has no real existence], and that there is no God but one.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:6 - yet for us there is but one God, the Father, [fn]who is the source of all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things [that have been created], and we [believers exist and have life and have been redeemed] through Him.

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However, not all [believers] have this knowledge. But some, being accustomed [throughout their lives] to [thinking of] the idol until now [as real and living], still eat food [fn]as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and because their conscience is weak, it is defiled (guilty, ashamed).

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:8 - Now food will not commend us to God nor bring us close to Him; we are no worse off if we do not eat, nor are we better if we do eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:9 - Only be careful that this liberty of yours [this power to choose] does not somehow become a stumbling block [that is, a temptation to sin] to the weak [in conscience].

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:10 - For if someone sees you, a person having [fn]knowledge, [fn]eating in an idol’s temple, then if he is weak, will he not be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to idols [and violate his own convictions]?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - For through your knowledge (spiritual maturity) this weak man is ruined [that is, he suffers in his spiritual life], the brother for whom Christ died.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12 - And when you sin against the brothers and sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience [by confusing them], you sin against Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:13 - Therefore, if [my eating a certain] food causes my brother to stumble (sin), I will not eat [such] meat ever again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.
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Lit from whom are all things.
In Paul’s viewpoint, meat sold at the market place (even if it had been used in idol worship) was permissible food because a pagan sacrifice was meaningless, and the meat itself could not be contaminated by any such ritual (cf Mark 7:19). Some who had accepted Christ worried that they were violating their new faith if they ate any meat without knowing its origin first-hand.
I.e. the knowledge that no harm can come from eating the meat, since in reality the sacrifice is meaningless (see note v 7).
Lit reclining, i.e. the position in which people dined.
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