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1 Corinthians 8:7
1 Corinthians 8:7 is verse 7 of 1 Corinthians chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
King James Version
Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
World English Bible
However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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1 Corinthians 8:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
7 But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
8 But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
9 Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 1:10I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction.
1 Corinthians 1:11My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.
1 Corinthians 8:9Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:10For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
1 Corinthians 10:28But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—
1 Corinthians 10:29the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?
Romans 14:14I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
Romans 14:23But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.