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1 Corinthians 8:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged  to eat food offered to idols?

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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’.


But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats,  because his eating is not from faith,  and everything that is not from faith is sin.


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.


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.


They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken as collateral, and in the house of their God they drink wine obtained through fines.


So they went out to the countryside and harvested grapes from their vineyards. They trampled the grapes and held a celebration.  Then they went to the house of their god, and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.


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


Give no offence  to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,


but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality,  from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.


But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block  to the weak.





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