Sept. 12
1 Corinthians 8
1Co 8:1 Now concerning
things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge.
Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1Co 8:2 But if anyone
thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to
know.
1Co 8:3 But if anyone
loves God, the same is known by him.
1Co 8:4 Therefore
concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no
idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but
one.
1Co 8:5 For though
there are things that are called "gods," whether in the
heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many
"lords;"
1Co 8:6 yet to us there
is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and
one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live
through him.
1Co 8:7 However, that
knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol
until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their
conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1Co 8:8 But food will
not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the
worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.
1Co 8:9 But be careful
that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block
to the weak.
1Co 8:10 For if a man
sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his
conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to
idols?
1Co 8:11 And through
your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake
Christ died.
1Co 8:12 Thus, sinning
against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak,
you sin against Christ.
1Co 8:13 Therefore, if
food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore,
that I don't cause my brother to stumble.