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1 Corinthians 8

Take Care with Your Liberty

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Now concerning  athings sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have  bknowledge. Knowledge  1 cmakes arrogant, but love  dedifies.

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 aIf anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet  bknown as he ought to know;

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but if anyone loves God, he  ais known by Him.

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Therefore concerning the eating of  athings sacrificed to idols, we know that  1there is  bno such thing as an idol in the world, and that  cthere is no God but one.

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

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yet for us  athere is but one God,  bthe Father,  cfrom whom are all things and we exist for Him; and  done Lord, Jesus Christ,  eby whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

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However not all men  ahave this knowledge; but  bsome, 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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But  afood will not  1commend us to God; we are neither  2the worse if we do not eat, nor  3the better if we do eat.

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But  atake care that this  1liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the  bweak.

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For if someone sees you, who have  aknowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat  bthings sacrificed to idols?

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For through  ayour knowledge he who is weak  bis ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

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 aAnd so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin  bagainst Christ.

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Therefore,  aif food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.



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