Upon garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and drink wine confiscated as fines in the house of their gods.
1 Corinthians 8:10 - Tree of Life Version For suppose someone sees you—who have this knowledge—dining in an idol’s temple. If his conscience is weak, won’t he be emboldened to eat idol sacrifices? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For suppose someone sees you, a man having knowledge [of God, with an intelligent view of this subject and] reclining at table in an idol's temple, might he not be encouraged and emboldened [to violate his own conscientious scruples] if he is weak and uncertain, and eat what [to him] is for the purpose of idol worship? American Standard Version (1901) For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? Common English Bible Suppose someone sees you (the person who has knowledge) eating in an idol’s temple. Won’t the person with a weak conscience be encouraged to eat the meat sacrificed to false gods? Catholic Public Domain Version For if anyone sees someone with knowledge sitting down to eat in idolatry, will not his own conscience, being infirm, be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols? |
Upon garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and drink wine confiscated as fines in the house of their gods.
Then they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, so the people were eating, and bowing down before their gods.
but to write to them to abstain from the contamination of idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Yeshua, that nothing is unholy in itself; but it is unholy for the one who considers it unholy.
But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not of faith. And whatever is not of faith is sin.
Give no offense either to Jewish or Greek people or to God’s community—
Therefore concerning the eating of idol sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
But that knowledge is not in everyone—some, so accustomed to idols up until now, eat food as an idol sacrifice; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
But watch out that this freedom of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
When they went out into the field, they gathered grapes of their vineyards, trod them and had a party. Then they went into the house of their god, ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.