1 Corinthians 8:10

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For example, suppose someone with a weak conscience sees you, who have this knowledge, eating in the temple of a false god. Won’t you be encouraging that person to eat food offered to a false god?

Cross References

Amos 2:8

Beside every altar, they spread themselves out on clothes taken as security. In the temples of their gods, they drink the wine that they bought with fines.

Numbers 25:2

who invited the people to the sacrifices offered to their gods. The people ate the meat from the sacrifices and worshiped these gods.

Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write a letter telling them to keep away from things polluted by false gods, from sexual sins, from eating the meat of strangled animals, and from eating bloody meat.

Romans 14:14

The Lord Jesus has given me the knowledge and conviction that no food is unacceptable in and of itself. But it is unacceptable to a person who thinks it is.

Romans 14:23

But if a person has doubts and still eats, he is condemned because he didn’t act in faith. Anything that is not done in faith is sin.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Don’t cause others to stumble, whether they are Jewish, Greek, or members of God’s church.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Now about eating food that was offered to false gods: We know that the false gods in this world don’t really exist and that no god exists except the one God.

1 Corinthians 8:7

But not everyone knows this. Some people are so used to worshiping false gods that they believe they are eating food offered to a false god. So they feel guilty because their conscience is weak.

1 Corinthians 8:9

But be careful that by using your freedom you don’t somehow make a believer who is weak in faith fall into sin.

Judges 9:27

They went into the country and harvested grapes in the vineyards to make wine. Then they made an offering of praise in the temple of their gods. They ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.