Food Offered to Idols

About food offered to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.

I affirm by the pride in you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: I die every day!

as you have partially understood us—that we are your reason for pride, as you are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in the outward appearance rather than in the heart.

I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you. I am filled with encouragement; I am overcome with joy in all our afflictions.

For everything that belongs to the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s lifestyle—is not from the Father, but is from the world.