Read 1 Corinthians 8

World English Bible · 13 verses

1. ¹ Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ But anyone who loves God is known by him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. 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”—This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. 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?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org