1Cor 8 | NASB2020 | STEP | Now concerning food sacrificed to idols , we know that we all have knowledge . Knowledge makes one conceited , but love edifies people.

1 Corinthians 8

Take Care with Your Liberty

1 Now concerning ^afood sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have ^bknowledge. Knowledge ^{▼▼Lit puffs up
,} ^dmakes one conceited, but love ^eedifies people. 2 ^fIf anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet ^gknown as he ought to know; 3 but if anyone loves God, he ^his known by Him.

4 Therefore, concerning the eating of ⁱfood sacrificed to idols, we know that an ^jidol is ^{▼▼I.e., what it represents does not exist}nothing at all in the world, and that ^lthere is no God but one. 5 For even if ^mthere are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, 6 yet for us ⁿthere is only one God, ^othe Father, ^pfrom whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and ^qone Lord, Jesus Christ, ^rby whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

7 However, not all people ^shave this knowledge; but ^tsome, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 Now ^ufood will not bring us ^{▼▼Or before God}close to God; we are neither ^{▼▼Lit lacking}the worse if we do not eat, nor ^{▼▼Lit abounding}the better if we do eat. 9 But ^ytake care that this ^{▼▼Lit right}freedom of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the ^aaweak. 10 For if someone sees you, the one who has ^abknowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will his conscience, if he is weak, not be strengthened to eat ^acthings sacrificed to idols? 11 For through ^adyour knowledge the one who is weak ^aeis ruined, the brother or sister for whose sake Christ died. 12 ^afAnd so, by sinning against the brothers and sisters and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin ^agagainst Christ. 13 Therefore, ^ahif food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to sin.