1 Corinthians 8:1-3

Food Offered to Idols

¹ Now concerning _{1 m} food offered to idols: we know that _n "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" _o puffs up, _p but love builds up. ² _q If anyone imagines that he knows something, _r he does not yet know as he ought to know. ³ But if anyone loves God, _s he is known by God. ₂

1. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 8:4
   Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one.
   1 Corinthians 8:7
   However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really 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 he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
   Acts 15:29
   That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
   
2. Cross References
   Romans 15:14
   I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 14:3
   Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 13:4 - 13
   Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
   
5. Cross References
   Galatians 6:3
   For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
   1 Corinthians 3:18
   Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 13:8 - 9
   Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
   1 Corinthians 13:12
   For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
   1 Timothy 6:3 - 4
   If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness.
   
7. Cross References
   Galatians 4:9
   But now that you have come to know God, or rath...
   Exodus 33:12
   Moses said to the Lord, "See, you say to me, 'B...
   Exodus 33:17
   And the Lord said to Moses, "This very thing th...
   Jeremiah 1:5
   "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, an...
   Nahum 1:7
   The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of tr...
   2 Timothy 2:19
   But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this ...