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1 Corinthians 8

Food Sacrificed to Idols

But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

Food Sacrificed to Idols

Now regarding your question about food that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that “we all have knowledge” about this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church.

If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].

Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much.

But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):

But the person who loves God is the one whom God recognizes.a

-- 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.

So, what about eating meat that has been offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God.

For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)

There may be so-called gods both in heaven and on earth, and some people actually worship many gods and many lords.

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.

But for us,
There is one God, the Father,
by whom all things were created,
and for whom we live.
And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ,
through whom all things were created,
and through whom we live.

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.

However, not all believers know this. Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods, and their weak consciences are violated.

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.

It’s true that we can’t win God’s approval by what we eat. We don’t lose anything if we don’t eat it, and we don’t gain anything if we do.

But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

But you must be careful so that your freedom does not cause others with a weaker conscience to stumble.

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?

For if others see you — with your “superior knowledge” — eating in the temple of an idol, won’t they be encouraged to violate their conscience by eating food that has been offered to an idol?

and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.

So because of your superior knowledge, a weak believerb for whom Christ died will be destroyed.

Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

And when you sin against other believersc by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong, you are sinning against Christ.

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.

So if what I eat causes another believer to sin, I will never eat meat again as long as I live — for I don’t want to cause another believer to stumble.

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