1 Corinthians 8:1 (ASV)
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

1 Corinthians 8:2 (ASV)
If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;

1 Corinthians 8:3 (ASV)
but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.

1 Corinthians 8:4 (ASV)
Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is `anything' in the world, and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 8:5 (ASV)
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;

1 Corinthians 8:6 (ASV)
yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

1 Corinthians 8:7 (ASV)
Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as `of' a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:8 (ASV)
But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

1 Corinthians 8:9 (ASV)
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:10 (ASV)
For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:11 (ASV)
For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

1 Corinthians 8:12 (ASV)
And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:13 (ASV)
Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
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