1 Corinthians 8 (NET)

1 Corinthians 8:1¹With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:2²If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:3³But if someone loves God, he is known by God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:4⁴With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:5⁵If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:6⁶yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:7⁷But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:8⁸Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:9⁹But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:10¹⁰For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be “strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:11¹¹So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:12¹²If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 8:13¹³For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions