Sha'ul's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 8
{8:1} Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all
have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. {8:2} But if
anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought
to know. {8:3} But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
{8:4} Therefore 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. {8:5} For though there are things that are called
"gods," whether in the heavens or on [1>]eretz[<1]; as there are many
"gods" and many "lords;" {8:6} yet to us there is one God, the Father,
of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Yeshua the
Messiah, through whom are all things, and we live through him. {8:7}
However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness
of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and
their conscience, being weak, is defiled. {8:8} But 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. {8:9} But be careful that by no
means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
{8:10} For 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? {8:11} And through your knowledge, he who
is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Messiah died. {8:12}
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when
it is weak, you sin against Messiah. {8:13} Therefore, if food causes
my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't
cause my brother to stumble.
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Footnotes:
[1] {8:5} earth
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