The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 08
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to
idols: We know that we all have knowledge.
Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 But if anyone thinks that he knows
anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought
to know.
3 But anyone who loves God is known by him.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of
things sacrificed to idols, we know that no
idolis anything inthe world, andthatthere
is no other God but one.
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”—
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.
7 However, that knowledge isn’t in all
men. But some, with consciousness of an
idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to
an idol, and their conscience, being weak,
is defiled.
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.
9 But be careful that by no means does
this liberty of yours become a stumbling
block to the weak.
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?
11 And through your knowledge, he who
is weak perishes, the brother for whose
sake Christ died.
12 Thus, sinning against the brothers,
and wounding their conscience when it is
weak, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if foodcauses my brother to
stumble, I will eat no meat forever more,
that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.