1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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In Context
2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
Cross References
Numbers 25:2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Isaiah 47:10For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’
Acts 15:19Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
Acts 21:25But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
Romans 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
Romans 14:10But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will 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 →