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Joshua 8:33 (NIV)

All the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the Lord , facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel.

Joshua 8:34 (NIV)

Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law.

Joshua 8:35 (NIV)

There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them.

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.

1 Samuel 8:5 (NIV)

They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.”

1 Samuel 8:6 (NIV)

But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord .

1 Samuel 8:7 (NIV)

And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.

1 Samuel 8:8 (NIV)

As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.

1 Samuel 8:9 (NIV)

Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights.”