1 Corinthians 8:10
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10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating[a] in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,[b] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
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- 1 Corinthians 8:10 Greek reclining at table
- 1 Corinthians 8:10 Or fortified; Greek built up
1 Corinthians 10:28-29
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28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— 29 I do not mean (A)your conscience, but his. For (B)why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience?
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1 Corinthians 10:20-21
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20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice (A)they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 (B)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and (C)the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and (D)the table of demons.
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1 Corinthians 8:4
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4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that (A)“an idol has no real existence,” and that (B)“there is no God but one.”
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Romans 14:23
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23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.[a]
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- Romans 14:23 Some manuscripts insert here 16:25–27
1 Corinthians 8:7
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7 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, (A)through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and (B)their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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1 Corinthians 8:1-2
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Food Offered to Idols
8 Now concerning[a] (A)food offered to idols: we know that (B)“all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” (C)puffs up, (D)but love builds up. 2 (E)If anyone imagines that he knows something, (F)he does not yet know as he ought to know.
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- 1 Corinthians 8:1 The expression Now concerning introduces a reply to a question in the Corinthians' letter; see 7:1
Romans 14:14
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14 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus (A)that nothing is unclean in itself, (B)but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.
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Amos 2:8
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8 they lay themselves down beside every altar
on garments (A)taken in pledge,
and in the house of their God they drink
the wine of those who have been fined.
Judges 9:27
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27 And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into (A)the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.
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Numbers 25:2
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2 (A)These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
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1 Corinthians 10:32
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32 (A)Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to (B)the church of God,
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