1 Corinthians 8

1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.Cross-references: Num 25:2 · Isa 5:21 · Isa 47:10 · Acts 15:10 · Acts 15:19 · Acts 15:29 · +26 more

2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.Cross-references: Prov 26:12 · Prov 30:2 · Rom 11:25 · 1Cor 3:18 · 1Cor 13:8 · 1Cor 13:12 · +3 more

3But anyone who loves God is known by him.Cross-references: Ex 33:12 · Ex 33:17 · Ps 1:6 · Ps 17:3 · Ps 139:1 · Jer 1:5 · +19 more

4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.Cross-references: Deut 3:24 · Deut 4:35 · Deut 4:39 · Deut 6:4 · Deut 32:39 · Ps 115:4 · +23 moreExamined: Mormonism →

5For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—Cross-references: Deut 10:17 · Jer 2:11 · Jer 2:28 · Jer 11:13 · Dan 5:4 · John 10:34 · +2 moreExamined: Mormonism →

6yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.Cross-references: Deut 6:4 · Jonah 1:9 · Mal 2:10 · Matt 11:27 · Matt 28:18 · John 1:3 · +28 moreExamined: Unitarianism →

7However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.Cross-references: Rom 14:14 · Rom 14:22 · 1Cor 1:10 · 1Cor 8:9 · 1Cor 10:28

8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.Cross-references: Rom 14:17 · 1Cor 6:13 · Col 2:20 · Heb 13:9

9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.Cross-references: Lev 19:14 · Isa 35:3 · Isa 57:14 · Ezek 14:3 · Ezek 44:12 · Matt 18:6 · +17 more

10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?Cross-references: Num 25:2 · Judg 9:27 · Amos 2:8 · Rom 14:14 · Rom 14:23 · 1Cor 8:1 · +5 more

11And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.Cross-references: Rom 14:15 · Rom 14:20 · Rom 15:1 · 1Cor 8:13 · 1Cor 10:33

12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.Cross-references: Gen 20:9 · Gen 42:22 · Ex 16:8 · Ex 32:21 · 1Sam 2:25 · 1Sam 19:4 · +9 more

13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.Cross-references: Rom 14:21 · 1Cor 6:12 · 1Cor 9:12 · 1Cor 9:19 · 1Cor 10:33 · 1Cor 13:5 · +3 more