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1 Corinthians 8:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Now about food sacrificed to idols:  We know that ‘we all have knowledge’. Knowledge puffs up,  but love  builds up.

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However, not everyone has this knowledge. Some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food sacrificed to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.


One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat,  and one who does not eat must not judge one who does,  because God has accepted him.


Woe to those who consider themselves wise and judge themselves clever.  ,


But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam,   who taught Balak to place a stumbling block   in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols   and to commit sexual immorality.


About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.


If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.


My brothers and sisters, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness,  filled with all knowledge,  and able to instruct one another.


From him the whole body, fitted and knit together  by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth  of the body for building itself up in love by the proper working of each individual part.


Come to your senses  , and stop sinning; for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.


that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.  You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.’


You were secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. You said to yourself, “I am, and there is no one else.”


The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.


But if someone says to you, ‘This is food from a sacrifice’, do not eat it,  out of consideration for the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.


With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that  they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.’


Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks  that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?


But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel,   who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.


Let no one condemn  you  by delighting in ascetic practices  and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such a person is inflated  by empty notions of his unspiritual  mind.


Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.


Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven  , leavens the whole batch of dough?


And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief  and remove from your congregation the one who did this?


Now some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.


We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ!  We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonoured!


that you were enriched in him  in every way, in all speech and all knowledge.


Whatever you believe about these things, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.


I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself.  Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.


But you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or you, why do you despise your brother or sister? For we will all stand before the judgement seat of God.  ,


Live in harmony with one another.  Do not be proud;  instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation.


I don’t want you to be ignorant  of this mystery,  brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited:  A partial hardening has come upon Israel  until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.


So then, let us pursue what promotes peace  and what builds up one another.


Now, brothers and sisters,  I have applied these things to myself and Apollos  for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying: ‘Nothing beyond what is written.’ The purpose is that none of you will be arrogant, favouring one person over another.


I am speaking as to sensible people. Judge for yourselves what I am saying.





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