1 Corinthians 8:1
But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
1 Corinthians 8:2
If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it .
1 Corinthians 8:3
But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):
1 Corinthians 8:4
--concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.
1 Corinthians 8:5
For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)
1 Corinthians 8:6
yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom all things, and *we* for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and *we* by him.
1 Corinthians 8:7
But knowledge is not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:8
But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:10
For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?
1 Corinthians 8:11
and the weak one , the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
1 Corinthians 8:12
Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.