1 Corinthians 8:1

Modern English Version

Now as concerning food offered to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge produces arrogance, but love edifies.

Cross References

Isaiah 47:10

For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”

Isaiah 5:21

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight!

Numbers 25:2

They called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Acts 15:10

Now then, why test God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Acts 15:29

Abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

Acts 21:25

As for the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they should observe no such thing, except that they abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.”

Romans 11:25

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own estimation, for a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Do not pretend to be wiser than you are.

Romans 14:10

So why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Romans 14:14

I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Romans 14:19

Therefore let us pursue the things which produce peace and the things that build up one another.

Romans 14:22

The faith that you have, have as your own conviction before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

Romans 14:3

Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat, and do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has welcomed him.

Romans 15:14

Now I myself am persuaded concerning you, my brothers, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and also able to instruct one another.

1 Corinthians 1:5

By Him you are enriched in everything, in all speech and in all knowledge,

1 Corinthians 10:15

I speak as to wise men. Judge for yourselves what I say.

1 Corinthians 10:28

But if anyone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice to idols,” do not eat it for the sake of him that mentioned it and for the sake of conscience, for “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking; rather be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Awake to righteousness and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.

1 Corinthians 4:18

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

1 Corinthians 4:6

Brothers, I have figuratively applied these things to myself and to Apollos for your sakes, so that you may learn from us not to think of men above that which is written, and that not one of you would be arrogant for one against another.

1 Corinthians 5:2

But you are arrogant. Instead you should have mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch?

1 Corinthians 8:2

So if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So concerning the eating of foods that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

1 Corinthians 8:7

However, not everyone has this knowledge. Some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat the food as a thing offered to an idol. So their weak conscience is defiled.

Ephesians 4:16

from whom the whole body is joined together and connected by every joint and ligament, as every part effectively does its work and grows, building itself up in love.

Colossians 2:18

Do not let anyone cheat you of your reward by delighting in false humility and the worship of angels, dwelling on those things which he has not seen, vainly arrogant due to his unspiritual mind,

Revelation 2:14

“But I have a few things against you: You have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the Israelites, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20

“But I have a few things against you: You permit that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat food sacrificed to idols.