10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not (A)the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?

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10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?(A)

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28 But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it (A)for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake; [a]for (B)“the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.” 29 “Conscience,” I say, not your own, but that of the other. For (C)why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 10:28 NU omits the rest of v. 28.

28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.(A) 29 I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom(B) being judged by another’s conscience?

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20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles (A)sacrifice (B)they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21 (C)You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and (D)the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the (E)Lord’s table and of the table of demons.

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20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons,(A) not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.(B)

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Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that (A)an idol is nothing in the world, (B)and that there is no other God but one.

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So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols:(A) We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world”(B) and that “There is no God but one.”(C)

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23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for (A)whatever is not from faith is [a]sin.

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  1. Romans 14:23 M puts Rom. 16:25–27 here.

23 But whoever has doubts(A) is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.[a]

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  1. Romans 14:23 Some manuscripts place 16:25-27 here; others after 15:33.

However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, (A)with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is (B)defiled.

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But not everyone possesses this knowledge.(A) Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak,(B) it is defiled.

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Be Sensitive to Conscience

Now (A)concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have (B)knowledge. (C)Knowledge [a]puffs up, but love [b]edifies. And (D)if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 8:1 makes arrogant
  2. 1 Corinthians 8:1 builds up

Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols

Now about food sacrificed to idols:(A) We know that “We all possess knowledge.”(B) But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. Those who think they know something(C) do not yet know as they ought to know.(D)

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The Law of Love

14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus (A)that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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14 I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself.(A) But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.(B)

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They lie down (A)by every altar on clothes (B)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of [a]the condemned in the house of their god.

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  1. Amos 2:8 Or those punished by fines

They lie down beside every altar
    on garments taken in pledge.(A)
In the house of their god
    they drink wine(B) taken as fines.(C)

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27 So they went out into the fields, and gathered grapes from their vineyards and trod them, and [a]made merry. And they went into (A)the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

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  1. Judges 9:27 rejoiced

27 After they had gone out into the fields and gathered the grapes and trodden(A) them, they held a festival in the temple of their god.(B) While they were eating and drinking, they cursed Abimelek.

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(A)They invited the people to (B)the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and (C)bowed down to their gods.

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who invited them to the sacrifices(A) to their gods.(B) The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods.

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32 (A)Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God,

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32 Do not cause anyone to stumble,(A) whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God(B)

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