1 Corinthians 8:1
NOW concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
2If any one thinks that he knows anything, he has known nothing yet as he ought to know.
Cross References
Acts 15:19Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not those who from among the Gentiles are turning to God;
Acts 21:25But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote to them, deciding that they should observe no such thing, except that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.
Romans 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Aspire not to things that are high, but condescend to the lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Romans 14:10But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God.
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 →