1 Corinthians 8:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.”
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“Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 8:1 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 25:2who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
- Isaiah 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
- Isaiah 47:10You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
- Acts 15:10Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
- Acts 15:19It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
- Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- Acts 21:25As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
- Romans 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
- Romans 12:16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.
- Romans 14:3The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.
- Romans 14:10Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
- Romans 14:14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- Romans 14:22Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.
- Romans 15:14I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
- 1 Corinthians 1:5For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,
- 1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.
- 1 Corinthians 4:18Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
- 1 Corinthians 5:2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
- 1 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
- 1 Corinthians 8:2The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
- 1 Corinthians 8:7But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
- 1 Corinthians 8:10For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
- 1 Corinthians 10:19Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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