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The First Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians
Chapter 8
Though an idol be nothing, yet things offered up to idols are not to be eaten, for fear of scandal.
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Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth. |
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And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to know. |
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But if any man love God, the same is known by him. |
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But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one. |
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For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven or on earth (for there be gods many and lords many): |
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Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. |
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But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. |
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But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less. |
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But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak. |
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For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols? |
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And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died? |
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Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. |
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Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother. |