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| 1 But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. |
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| 2 If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it. |
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| 3 But if any one love God, *he* is known of him): |
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| 4 --concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one. |
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| 5 For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,) |
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| 6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom all things, and *we* for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and *we* by him. |
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| 7 But knowledge is not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. |
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| 8 But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage. |
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| 9 But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak. |
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| 10 For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol? |
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| 11 and the weak one, the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge. |
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| 12 Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. |
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| 13 Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother. |
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