Food
Sacrificed To Idols
Now
about food sacrificed to Idols:
We
know that we all possess knowledge.
KNOWLEDGE
PUFFS UP, BUT LOVE BUILDS UP.
2
THE MAN WHO THINKS HE KNOWS SOMETHING
DOES
NOT YET KNOW AS HE OUGHT TO KNOW.
3
BUT THE MAN WHO LOVES GOD IS KNOWN BY GOD.
4
So the, 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.
5
FOR EVEN IF THERE ARE SO CALLED GODS,
WHETHER
IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH
(As
indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),
6
YET FOR US THERE IS BUT ONE GOD,
THE
FATHER, FROM WHOM ALL THINGS CAME
AND
FROM WHO WE LIVE;
AND
THERE IS BUT ONE LORD, JESUS CHRIST,
THROUGH
WHOM ALL THINGS CAME
AND
THROUGH WHOM WE LIVE.
7
BUT NOT EVERYONE KNOWS THIS.
Some
people are still so accustomed to Idols
That
they eat such food they think of it
As
having been sacrificed to an Idol,
AND
SINCE THEIR CONSCIENCE IS WEAK
IT
IS DEFILED.
8
BUT FOOD DOES NOT BRING US NEAR TO GOD;
WE
ARE NO WORSE IF WE DO NOT EAT,
AND
NO BETTER IF WE DO.
9
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your Freedom
Does
not become a Stumbling Block to the Weak.
10
For if anyone with a Weak Conscience sees you
Who
have this knowledge eating in an Idol's Temple,
Won't
he be emboldened
To
eat what has been sacrificed to Idols?
11
SO THIS WEAK BROTHER, FOR WHO CHRIST DIED,
IS
DESTROYED BY YOUR KNOWLEDGE.
12
WHEN YOU SIN AGAINST YOUR BROTHER IN THIS WAY
AND
WOUND THEIR WEAK CONSCIENCE,
YOU
SIN AGAINST CHRIST.
13
THEREFORE, IF WHAT I EAT CAUSES MY BROTHER
TO
FALL INTO SIN,
I
WILL NEVER EAT MEAT AGAIN,
SO
THAT I WILL NOT CAUSE HIM TO FALL.
(1
Corinthians 8)
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