20 but that we write to them that they abstain from [a](A)things contaminated by idols, from (B)acts of sexual immorality, from (C)what has been [b]strangled, and from blood.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 15:20 Lit the pollutions of
  2. Acts 15:20 I.e., to retain the blood

20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols,(A) from sexual immorality,(B) from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.(C)

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20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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Therefore, concerning the eating of (A)food sacrificed to idols, we know that an (B)idol is [a]nothing at all in the world, and that (C)there is no God but one.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:4 I.e., what it represents does not exist

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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As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

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However, not all people (A)have this knowledge; but (B)some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is 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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Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

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10 For if someone sees you, the one who has (A)knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will his conscience, if he is weak, not be strengthened to eat (B)things sacrificed 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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10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;

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