Chapter 8

  But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.  

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  If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].  

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  But if any one love God, he is known of him):  

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  -- concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save one.  

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  For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)  

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  yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.  

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  But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.  

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  But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.  

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  But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.  

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  For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?  

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  and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.  

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  Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.  

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  Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.  

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