New King James Version, 1982 - 1 Corinthians 8 (NKJV Bible)

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1 Corinthians Chapter 8 (NKJV Bible)
1 Now [1†]concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have [2†]knowledge. [3†]Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2 And [4†]if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that [5†]an idol is nothing in the world, [6†]and that there is no other God but one.
5 For even if there are [7†]so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
6 yet [8†]for us there is one God, the Father, [9†]of whom are all things, and we for Him; and [10†]one Lord Jesus Christ, [11†]through whom are all things, and [12†]through whom we live.
7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, [13†]with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is [14†]defiled.
8 But [15†]food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.
9 But [16†]beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become [17†]a stumbling block to those who are weak.
10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not [18†]the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?
11 And [19†]because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
12 But [20†]when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, [21†]if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
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