1 Corinthians 8:1

Food Offered to Idols

¹ Now _a concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have _b knowledge. _c Knowledge ₁ puffs up, but love ₂ edifies.

1. Cross References
   Acts 15:20
   But that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.
   1 Corinthians 8:4
   Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
   1 Corinthians 8:7
   However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
   1 Corinthians 8:10
   For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?
   
2. Cross References
   Romans 14:14
   I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 14:3
   Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.