1 Corinthians 8:10

New American Bible - revised edition

If someone sees you, with your knowledge, reclining at table in the temple of an idol, may not his conscience too, weak as it is, be “built up” to eat the meat sacrificed to idols?

Cross References

Amos 2:8

Upon garments taken in pledge they recline beside any altar. Wine at treasury expense they drink in their temples.

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 15:20

but tell them by letter to avoid pollution from idols, unlawful marriage, the meat of strangled animals, and blood.

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 14:23

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because this is not from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Avoid giving offense, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,

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.

1 Corinthians 8:9

But make sure that this liberty of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.

Judges 9:27

They went out into the fields, harvested the grapes from their vineyards, trod them out, and held a festival. Then they went to the temple of their god, where they ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.