1 Corinthians 8:10

New English Translation

For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be “strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?

Cross References

Amos 2:8

They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!

Numbers 25:2

These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Acts 15:20

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

Romans 14:14

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

Romans 14:23

But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

1 Corinthians 8:4

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 8:7

But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:9

But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

Judges 9:27

They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, squeezed out the juice, and celebrated. They came to the temple of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.