1 Corinthians 8

Darby Bible · 1890 · New Testament · 16 chapters

Reading 1 Corinthians chapter 8 in the Darby Bible, public-domain text from 1890.

Verses 1–10

1 But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

2 If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].

3 But if any one loveGod, he is known of him):

4 — concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no otherGod save one.

5 For and if indeed there are [those] calledgods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there aregods many, and lords many,)

6 yet to us [there is] oneGod, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.

7 But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8 But meat does not commend us toGod; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

9 But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

10 For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

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