1 Corinthians 8:1
Now in regard to food which has been offered to idols, we are sure of course that "we all have knowledge." But knowledge puffs up, while love builds up.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2If a man thinks that he already has knowledge, he does not yet truly know as he ought to know;
Cross References
Acts 15:19"My judgment therefore, is against troubling those who turn to God from among the Gentiles;
Acts 21:25"As for the Gentile believers, we wrote giving judgment that they should abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."
Romans 12:16Have full sympathy with one another. Set not your minds on high affairs, but associate with lowly folk. Do not be wise in your own conceits.
Romans 14:10But you the abstainer, why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you again the non-abstainer, why do you despise yours? 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 →