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1 Corinthians 7:8 (NIV)

Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.

1 Corinthians 7:9 (NIV)

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

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 8:1 (NIV)

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

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 8:4 (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 8:6 (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 8:2 (NIV)

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

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 8:9 (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 8:12 (NIV)

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

1 Corinthians 8:11 (NIV)

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

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 Corinthians 9:21 (NIV)

To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.

1 Corinthians 9:23 (NIV)

I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

1 Corinthians 9:5 (NIV)

Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas ?

1 Corinthians 9:13 (NIV)

Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?