The Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians |
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| [1] | NOW concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. 1 |
| [2] | If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know; |
| [3] | but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him. |
| [4] | Concerning therefore 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. |
| [5] | For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many; |
| [6] | yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him. |
| [7] | Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. |
| [8] | But food will not commend 2 us to God: neither, if we eat not, are 3 we the worse; nor, if we eat, are 4 we the better. |
| [9] | But take heed lest by any means this liberty 5 of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak. |
| [10] | For is a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be 6 emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? |
| [11] | For through 7 thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. |
| [12] | And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. |
| [13] | Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble. |
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