1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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1 Corinthians 8:7, 1 Corinthians 8:7, Romans 14:3, Romans 14:3, Isaiah 5:21

2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

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1 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Corinthians 3:18, 1 Corinthians 3:18, Proverbs 26:12

3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

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Revelation 3:8, Revelation 3:9, Revelation 3:8, Revelation 3:9, Exodus 33:17

4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.

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Deuteronomy 4:39, Deuteronomy 4:39, Isaiah 41:24, Isaiah 41:24, 1 Timothy 2:5

5For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"

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Jeremiah 2:28, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Galatians 4:8, Jeremiah 2:28, 2 Thessalonians 2:4

6yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

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Romans 11:36, Romans 11:36, John 1:3, John 1:3, Malachi 2:10

7However, that knowledge is not in all men. But some, being so accustomed to idols until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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Romans 14:14, Romans 14:14, 1 Corinthians 10:28, 1 Corinthians 10:29, 1 Corinthians 10:28

8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

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Romans 14:17, Romans 14:17, Hebrews 13:9, Hebrews 13:9, 1 Corinthians 6:13

9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

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Galatians 5:13, Galatians 5:13, Romans 14:20, Romans 14:21, Romans 14:20

10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

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1 Corinthians 10:28, 1 Corinthians 10:29, 1 Corinthians 10:28, 1 Corinthians 10:29, Romans 14:23

11And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whom the Christ died.

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Romans 14:15, Romans 14:15, Romans 15:1, Romans 15:3, Romans 15:1

12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

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Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:6, Matthew 25:45, Matthew 25:45, 1 Corinthians 12:12

13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble.

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Romans 14:21, Romans 14:21, 2 Corinthians 11:29, 2 Corinthians 6:3, 2 Corinthians 11:29