1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up; but charity edifieth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to know.
Cross References
Numbers 25:2Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.
Isaiah 47:10And thou best trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and thy knowledge, this hath deceived thee. And thou best said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no other.
Acts 15:19For which cause I judge that they, who from among the Gentiles are converted to God, are not to be disquieted.
Acts 21:25But as touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written, decreeing that they should only refrain themselves from that which has been offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangles, and from fornication.
Romans 12:16Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Romans 14:10But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of 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 →