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Revelation 1:13 (NIV)

and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.

Revelation 1:14 (NIV)

The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.

Revelation 1:15 (NIV)

His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.

Revelation 1:16 (NIV)

In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

Revelation 1:17 (NIV)

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.

Revelation 1:18 (NIV)

I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Revelation 1:19 (NIV)

“Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.

The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

1 Corinthians 8:1 (NIV)

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:2 (NIV)

Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.

1 Corinthians 8:3 (NIV)

But whoever loves God is known by God.

1 Corinthians 8:4 (NIV)

So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 8:5 (NIV)

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),

1 Corinthians 8:6 (NIV)

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

1 Corinthians 8:7 (NIV)

But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:8 (NIV)

But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

1 Corinthians 8:9 (NIV)

Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:10 (NIV)

For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 8:11 (NIV)

So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

1 Corinthians 8:12 (NIV)

When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8:13 (NIV)

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

1 Samuel 8:1 (NIV)

When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as Israel’s leaders.

1 Samuel 8:2 (NIV)

The name of his firstborn was Joel and the name of his second was Abijah, and they served at Beersheba.

1 Samuel 8:3 (NIV)

But his sons did not follow his ways. They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice.

1 Samuel 8:4 (NIV)

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.