1 Corinthians 8:1
NOW concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2But if any man conceit that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Cross References
Acts 15:19Therefore I am decided, that we give no unnecessary disquietude to those who from the heathen have turned to God:
Acts 21:25Concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have already written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, except that they should guard themselves from idol sacrifices, and blood, and what is strangled, and from whoredom.
Romans 12:16Be of the same mind among each other. Affect not high things, but be condescending to the lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Romans 14:10But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? And thou, why dost thou disparage thy brother? for we must all appear 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 →