Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not jud
So 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 I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stu
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instr
The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorali
who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yours
From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love throu
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols,
But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and
Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she mislea
Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who
I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something
Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he
For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encourag
Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he
Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has c
We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishon
For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment s