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Concerning Food Offered to Idols

Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone thinks he really[a] knows something, he has not yet learned it as he ought to know it. But anyone who loves God is known by him.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:2 The Gk. lacks really
  2. 1 Corinthians 8:3 I.e. Other mss. lack by him

Now de concerning peri · ho food sacrificed to idols eidōlothutos: we know oida that hoti we echō all pas have echō knowledge gnōsis.” · ho Knowledge gnōsis puffs up physioō, · ho but de love agapē builds up oikodomeō. If ei someone tis presumes dokeō to know ginōskō something tis, he does not oupō yet know ginōskō as kathōs he ought dei to know ginōskō. But de if ei someone tis loves agapaō · ho God theos, he houtos is known ginōskō by hypo God autos.

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