1 Corinthians 8:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols?

Cross References

Amos 2:8

they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink wine bought with fines they imposed.

Numbers 25:2

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

Acts 15:20

but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from sexual immorality and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.

Romans 14:14

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who considers it unclean.

Romans 14:23

But those who have doubts are condemned if they eat because they do not act from faith, for whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,

1 Corinthians 8:4

Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 8:7

It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:9

But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

Judges 9:27

They went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards, trod them, and celebrated. Then they went into the temple of their god, ate and drank, and ridiculed Abimelech.