1 Corinthians 8:10

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

Cross References

Acts 15:20

But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

Romans 14:14

Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is 'defiling in itself.' A thing is 'defiling' only to him who holds it to be so.

Romans 14:23

He, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if he still eats, because his doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.

1 Corinthians 10:32

Do not cause offence either to Jews or Greeks or to the Church of God;

1 Corinthians 8:4

With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

1 Corinthians 8:7

Still, it is not every one that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

1 Corinthians 8:9

But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.