1 Corinthians 8:1
Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2If any one thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know it:
Cross References
Acts 15:19For these reasons, my judgment is, that we give no trouble to those who, from among the Gentiles, have turned to God;
Acts 21:25But with respect to the Gentiles that believe, we have written; having decided that they should observe no such thing; but that they keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness.
Romans 12:16cultivate the same disposition, one toward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;
Romans 14:10But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we all shall stand before the judgment-seat of the Christ.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 8:1
The apostle, in this chapter, answers another case proposed to him by some of the Corinthians, about eating those things that had been sacrificed to idols. I. He hints at the occasion of this case, and gives a caution against too high an esteem of their knowledge, ver. 1-3 . II. He asserts the vanity of idols, the unity of the Godhead, and the sole mediation of Christ between God and man, ver. 4-6 . III. He tells them that upon supposition that it were lawful in itself to eat of things offered to idols (for that… Read the whole commentary →