1 Corinthians 8
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Food Offered to Idols
1Now about food sacrificed to idols: # 8:1 Ac 15:29; 21:25; 1Co 10:19; Rv 2:14,20 We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, # 8:1 1Co 4:6 but love # 8:1 1Co 13:1–13 builds up. 2If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it. # 8:2 1Co 3:18; 13:8–12; 1Tm 6:4 3But if anyone loves God, # 8:3 Dt 6:5; Lk 10:27 he is known # 8:3 Pr 2:6 by him.
4About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” # 8:4 Or an idol has no real existence and that “there is no God but one.” # 8:4 Dt 6:4 5For even if there are so-called gods, # 8:5 2Th 2:4 whether in heaven or on earth — as there are many “gods” and many “lords” — 6yet for us there is one God, the Father. # 8:6 Mt 5:16; 11:27; Lk 11:13; Jn 8:42; Eph 5:20 All things are from him, # 8:6 Ps 104:24; Col 1:16; Rv 3:14 and we exist for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through him, and we exist through him. # 8:6 Jn 1:3
7However, not everyone has this knowledge. Some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food sacrificed to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8Food will not bring us close to God. # 8:8 Or bring us before (the judgment seat of) God We are not worse off if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat. # 8:8 Rm 14:17 9But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block # 8:9 Ex 23:33; Rm 14:20 to the weak. 10For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged # 8:10 Or built up to eat food offered to idols? 11So the weak person, the brother or sister for whom Christ died, # 8:11 Jn 11:51; Rm 5:6,8; 8:34; 14:9,15; 1Co 15:3; Gl 2:21; Eph 5:2; 1Th 5:10 is ruined # 8:11 Or destroyed,# 8:11 Heb 6:8 by your knowledge. # 8:11 Mt 25:45 12Now when you sin like this against brothers and sisters and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ. 13Therefore, if food causes my brother or sister to fall, I will never again eat meat, # 8:13 Dt 12:15 so that I won’t cause my brother or sister to fall.
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1 Corinthians 8
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1Now concerning the sacrifice to an elil (idol in avodah zarah, idol worship), we know that “we all possess da'as (knowledge).” But da'as puffs up (with ga'avah), but ahavah (agape) builds up.#8:1 1C 14:1 2If anyone presumes he has da'as of anything, he does not yet have da'as of the necessary da'as. 3But if a person has Ahavas Hashem, Hashem has da'as of that person.#8:3 Jer 1:5
4Now concerning the eating of the okhel (food) at the mizbe'ach of avodah zarah which is sacrificed to an elil (idol), we have da'as that an elil is nothing in the world, and that there is no G-d but ECHAD.#8:4 Dt 4:35,39; 6:4 5For even if there are#8:5 in popular tradition so-called “g-ds,” whether in Shomayim or on ha'aretz, even as there are so-called “g-ds” many and “l-rds” many, 6Yet in fact for us we have da'as that there is ADONOI ECHAD (L-rd is One),#8:6 Dt 6:4 Hashem AV ECHAD L'CHULLANU (One Father of us all),#8:6 Mal 2:10 from whom are all things, and we exist for Hashem, and there is Adon Echad,#8:6 Mal 3:1 Moshiach Yehoshua,#8:6 Zech 3:8; 6:11-12 through whom are all things and we through him.
7However, not kol Bnei Adam have this da'as (knowledge). Some are so accustomed to the elil (idol) until now that when they eat, they think of the okhel (food) as being sacrificed to the elil in avodah zarah, and their matzpun (conscience), being weak, is made to be tameh (defiled). 8But okhel (food) will not usher us into the presence of Hashem; neither are we falling short if we do not eat okhel, nor are we better if we eat. 9But beware lest somehow your cherut (freedom) becomes a michshol (stumbling block) to the weak ones. 10For if anyone sees you, the one having da'as (knowledge), eating in the temple of an elil, will not the matzpun of him be strengthened so as to eat the okhel sacrificed to an elil (idol) at the mizbe'ach of avodah zarah? 11For the one being weak [in emunah] is being destroyed by your “da'as,” the Ach b'Moshiach for whom Moshiach died. 12And thus by sinning against the Achim b'Moshiach and wounding their weak matzpunim (consciences), you commit averos against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. 13Therefore, if okhel causes my Ach b'Moshiach to trip on a michshol, I should never eat meat again, lest I cause my Ach b'Moshiach to stumble.
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