1 Corinthians 8:1-3
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY IN THE MATTER OF EATING MEAT OFFERED TO IDOLS. Knowledge and charity:... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY IN THE MATTER OF EATING MEAT OFFERED TO IDOLS. Knowledge and charity:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW AS TOUCHING THINGS OFFERED UNTO IDOLS, WE KNOW THAT WE ALL HAVE KNOWLEDGE. KNOWLEDGE PUFFS UP, BUT CHARITY EDIFIES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF ANY MAN THINK THAT HE KNOWETH ANYTHING, HE KNOWETH NOTHING YET AS HE OUGHT TO KNOW.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF ANY MAN LOVE GOD, THE SAME IS KNOWN OF HIM. In this chapter the apostle offers the answer to a second question which had been laid before him by the Corinthian Christians: Was it right for a Christian to eat flesh that had been offered in sacrifice to an idol? The situation was somewhat compl... [ Continue Reading ]
AS CONCERNING, THEREFORE, THE EATING OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE OFFERED IN SACRIFICE UNTO IDOLS, WE KNOW THAT AN IDOL IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD, AND THAT THERE IS NONE OTHER GOD BUT ONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The knowledge of idols and the knowledge of God:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOUGH THERE BE THAT ARE CALLED GODS, WHETHER IN HEAVEN OR IN EARTH, (AS THERE BE GODS MANY AND LORDS MANY,)... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT TO US THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, THE FATHER, OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS AND WE IN HIM; AND ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM ARE ALL THINGS AND WE BY HIM. After the parenthetical sentence the apostle here returns to his subject: Concerning now the food of idol sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT THERE IS NOT IN EVERY MAN THAT KNOWLEDGE; FOR SOME WITH CONSCIENCE OF THE IDOL UNTO THIS HOUR EAT IT AS A THING OFFERED UNTO AN IDOL; AND THEIR CONSCIENCE, BEING WEAK, IS DEFILED.... [ Continue Reading ]
The weak in faith defile their conscience:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT MEAT COMMENDETH US NOT TO GOD; FOR NEITHER, IF WE EAT, ARE WE THE BETTER; NEITHER, IF WE EAT NOT, ARE WE THE WORSE. All the believers of Corinth agreed with Paul in his great confession concerning the true God; in this respect their knowledge was sound. But not all of them had the knowledge that... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT TAKE HEED LEST BY ANY MEANS THIS LIBERTY OF YOURS BECOME A STUMBLING-BLOCK TO THEM THAT ARE WEAK.... [ Continue Reading ]
A warning against the reckless use of Christian liberty:... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THROUGH THY KNOWLEDGE SHALL THE WEAK BROTHER PERISH, FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN YE SIN SO AGAINST THE BRETHREN AND WOUND THEIR WEAK CONSCIENCE, YE SIN AGAINST CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, IF MEAT MAKE MY BROTHER TO OFFEND, I WILL EAT NO FLESH WHILE THE WORLD STANDETH, LEST I MAKE MY BROTHER TO OFFEND. The connection between this passage and the foregoing one is the following. Paul, writing about defilement of conscience in the case of weak brethren, v. 7, intercepts the ob... [ Continue Reading ]