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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 8:7Isa 5:21Rom 14:31 Cor 8:4Rev 2:141 Cor 8:2Rom 15:141 Cor 13:1-131 Cor 15:34Acts 15:19-20

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 13:121 Cor 3:18Gal 6:3Prov 26:121 Tim 6:3-41 Cor 13:8-91 Tim 1:5-7Prov 30:2-4Rom 11:25

1 Corinthians 8:3³But if someone loves God, he is known by God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 3:8-9Exod 33:17Nah 1:72 Tim 2:191 Cor 2:9Gal 4:9Rev 2:19Jas 1:12Jer 1:5John 10:14

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:39Eph 4:61 Cor 10:19-20Deut 6:4Isa 41:241 Tim 2:51 Cor 8:6-7Isa 44:24Isa 44:6Isa 44:8-9

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Thess 2:4Gal 4:8Jer 2:28Deut 10:17Jer 11:13Jer 2:11Dan 5:4John 10:34-35

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:36John 1:3Mal 2:10Heb 1:2-3Col 1:16-171 Cor 8:4Eph 4:5-6Acts 17:28Deut 6:4John 14:20

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:28-29Rom 14:141 Cor 8:9-10Rom 14:22-231 Cor 1:10-11

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 14:17Heb 13:91 Cor 6:13Col 2:20-23

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:13Rom 14:20-211 Pet 2:162 Pet 2:191 Cor 10:24Rom 14:1-21 Cor 8:12Rom 14:13-151 Cor 10:321 Cor 8:10

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:28-291 Cor 10:20-211 Cor 8:4Rom 14:231 Cor 8:1-21 Cor 8:7Rom 14:14Amos 2:8Judg 9:27Num 25:2

1 Corinthians 8:11¹¹So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 14:15Rom 15:1-31 Cor 8:131 Cor 10:33-11:1Rom 14:20-21

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 18:6Matt 25:451 Cor 12:121 Sam 19:4-51 Sam 2:251 Sam 24:11Acts 9:4-5Exod 16:8Exod 32:21Gen 20:9

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 14:212 Cor 11:292 Cor 6:31 Cor 6:121 Cor 13:51 Cor 9:19-231 Cor 10:33-11:11 Cor 9:12