1 Corinthians 8 NLT NIV Parallel

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1Now regarding your question about food that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that “we all have knowledge” about this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church.

1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that "We all possess knowledge." But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.

2Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much.

2Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.

3But the person who loves God is the one whom God recognizes.

3But whoever loves God is known by God.

4So, what about eating meat that has been offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God.

4So then, 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."

5There may be so-called gods both in heaven and on earth, and some people actually worship many gods and many lords.

5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"),

6But for us, There is one God, the Father, by whom all things were created, and for whom we live. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created, and through whom we live.

6yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.

7However, not all believers know this. Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods, and their weak consciences are violated.

7But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

8It’s true that we can’t win God’s approval by what we eat. We don’t lose anything if we don’t eat it, and we don’t gain anything if we do.

8But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

9But you must be careful so that your freedom does not cause others with a weaker conscience to stumble.

9Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

10For if others see you—with your “superior knowledge”—eating in the temple of an idol, won’t they be encouraged to violate their conscience by eating food that has been offered to an idol?

10For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won't that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?

11So because of your superior knowledge, a weak believer for whom Christ died will be destroyed.

11So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

12And when you sin against other believers by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong, you are sinning against Christ.

12When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

13So if what I eat causes another believer to sin, I will never eat meat again as long as I live—for I don’t want to cause another believer to stumble.

13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.

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