New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Corinthians 8:1-7

1Now concerning 1food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have 2knowledge. Knowledge 3 4makes one conceited, but love 5edifies people. 2 6If anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet 7known as he ought to know; 3but if anyone loves God, he 8is known by Him.

4Therefore, concerning the eating of 9food sacrificed to idols, we know that an 10idol is 11nothing at all in the world, and that 12there is no God but one. 5For even if 13there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, 6yet for us 14there is only one God, 15the Father, 16from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and 17one Lord, Jesus Christ, 18by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

7However, not all people 19have this knowledge; but 20some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 8:1 Acts 15:20; 1 Cor 8:4, 7, 10 ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 8:1 Rom 15:14; 1 Cor 8:7, 10; 10:15 ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 8:1 Lit puffs up ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 8:1 1 Cor 4:6 ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 8:1 Rom 14:19 ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 8:2 1 Cor 3:18 ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 8:2 1 Cor 13:8-12; 1 Tim 6:4 ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 8:3 Ps 1:6; Jer 1:5; Amos 3:2; Rom 8:29; 11:2; Gal 4:9 ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 8:4 Acts 15:20; 1 Cor 8:1, 7, 10 ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 8:4 Acts 14:15; 1 Cor 10:19; Gal 4:8 ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 8:4 I.e., what it represents does not exist ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 8:4 Deut 4:35, 39; 6:4; 1 Cor 8:6 ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 8:5 2 Thess 2:4 ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 8:6 Deut 4:35, 39; 6:4; Is 46:9; Jer 10:6, 7; 1 Cor 8:4 ↩
15. 1 Corinthians 8:6 Mal 2:10; Eph 4:6 ↩
16. 1 Corinthians 8:6 Rom 11:36 ↩
17. 1 Corinthians 8:6 John 13:13; 1 Cor 1:2; Eph 4:5; 1 Tim 2:5 ↩
18. 1 Corinthians 8:6 John 1:3; Col 1:16 ↩
19. 1 Corinthians 8:7 1 Cor 8:4ff ↩
20. 1 Corinthians 8:7 Rom 14:14, 22f ↩

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