1 Corinthians 8:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Now in regard to meat sacrificed to idols: we realize that “all of us have knowledge”; knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.

Cross References

Isaiah 47:10

Secure in your wickedness, you said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, And you said in your heart, “I, and no one else!”

Isaiah 5:21

Ah! Those who are wise in their own eyes, prudent in their own view!

Numbers 25:2

These then invited the people to the sacrifices of their god, and the people ate of the sacrifices and bowed down to their god.

Acts 15:10

Why, then, are you now putting God to the test by placing on the shoulders of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Acts 15:29

namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” Delegates at Antioch.

Acts 21:25

As for the Gentiles who have come to believe, we sent them our decision that they abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage.”

Romans 11:25

I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not become wise [in] your own estimation: a hardening has come upon Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles comes in,

Romans 12:16

Have the same regard for one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly; do not be wise in your own estimation.

Romans 14:10

Why then do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you look down on your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God;

Romans 14:14

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; still, it is unclean for someone who thinks it unclean.

Romans 14:19

Let us then pursue what leads to peace and to building up one another.

Romans 14:22

Keep the faith [that] you have to yourself in the presence of God; blessed is the one who does not condemn himself for what he approves.

Romans 14:3

The one who eats must not despise the one who abstains, and the one who abstains must not pass judgment on the one who eats; for God has welcomed him.

Romans 15:14

I myself am convinced about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another.

1 Corinthians 1:5

that in him you were enriched in every way, with all discourse and all knowledge,

1 Corinthians 10:15

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

1 Corinthians 10:28

But if someone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice,” do not eat it on account of the one who called attention to it and on account of conscience;

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. In respect to evil be like infants, but in your thinking be mature.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Become sober as you ought and stop sinning. For some have no knowledge of God; I say this to your shame.

1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools on Christ’s account, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

1 Corinthians 4:18

Some have become inflated with pride, as if I were not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 4:6

I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written, so that none of you will be inflated with pride in favor of one person over against another.

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are inflated with pride. Should you not rather have been sorrowful? The one who did this deed should be expelled from your midst.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not appropriate. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?

1 Corinthians 8:2

If anyone supposes he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that “there is no idol in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 8:7

But not all have this knowledge. There are some who have been so used to idolatry up until now that, when they eat meat sacrificed to idols, their conscience, which is weak, is defiled.

Ephesians 4:16

from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the body’s growth and builds itself up in love. Renewal in Christ.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one disqualify you, delighting in self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, inflated without reason by his fleshly mind,

Revelation 2:14

Yet I have a few things against you. You have some people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites: to eat food sacrificed to idols and to play the harlot.

Revelation 2:20

Yet I hold this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, who teaches and misleads my servants to play the harlot and to eat food sacrificed to idols.