1 Corinthians 8:1
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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.
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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
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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Romans 14:3
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3 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and (A)let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
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Revelation 2:14
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14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of (A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might (B)eat food sacrificed to idols and (C)practice sexual immorality.
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Isaiah 5:21
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21 Woe to those who are (A)wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
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 15:14
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Paul the Minister to the Gentiles
14 (A)I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers,[a] that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with (B)all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
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- Romans 15:14 Or brothers and sisters; also verse 30
Ephesians 4:16
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16 (A)from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, (B)when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
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1 Corinthians 8:2
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2 (A)If anyone imagines that he knows something, (B)he does not yet know as he ought to know.
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Acts 15:29
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29 (A)that you abstain from (B)what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
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Acts 15:19-20
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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 15:34
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34 (A)Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For (B)some have no knowledge of God. (C)I say this to your shame.
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