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Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols
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Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that "We all possess knowledge." But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. SCode Act 15:29 Rom 15:14 1Cor 8:4 1Cor 13:4~13 1Cor 8:10
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Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. SCode 1Cor 13:8~9 1Cor 13:12 1Cor 3:18 Gal 6:3 1Tim 6:3~4
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But whoever loves God is known by God. SCode Exo 33:12 Exo 33:17 Jer 1:5 Nah 1:7 Gal 4:9 2Tim 2:19
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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." SCode Deu 4:35 Deu 4:39 Isa 41:24 Act 14:15 1Cor 8:6~7 1Cor 10:19
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For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"), SCode 2Th 2:4
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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. SCode Mal 2:10 Jn 1:3 Jn 13:13 Rom 11:36 1Cor 1:2 1Cor 8:4 Eph 4:5~6 Col 1:16 1Tim 2:5
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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. SCode Rom 14:14~15 1Cor 10:25 1Cor 10:28~29
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But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. SCode Rom 14:17
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Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. SCode Rom 14:1~3 1Cor 10:23 Gal 5:13
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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?
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So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. SCode Rom 14:20~21
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When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. SCode Zech 2:8 Mt 18:6 Mt 25:45
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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. SCode Rom 14:13 Rom 14:21~23 2Cor 6:3 2Cor 11:29
NIV Footnotes
  1. 8:2,3 An early manuscript and another ancient witness think they have knowledge do not yet know as they ought to know. 3 But whoever loves truly knows.
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