1 Corinthians 8:1
But concerning things offered to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but divine love builds up.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
2If any one seems to know anything, yet he knows not as it behooves him to know;
Cross References
Acts 15:19Therefore I judge, that we should not burden those from the Gentiles turning to God:
Acts 21:25But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent to them, adjudicating that they keep themselves from idolatry, and blood, and strangulation, and fornication.
Romans 12:16Have the same mind toward one another, not thinking high things, but condescending to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Romans 14:10But why do you judge your neighbor, or indeed why do you discount your 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 →