arch...@jab.org Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 8
{8:1} Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. {8:2} But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know. {8:3} But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him. {8:4} Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one. {8:5} For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords"; {8:6} yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Yeshua the Messiah, through whom are all things, and we live through him. {8:7} However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. {8:8} But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. {8:9} But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. {8:10} For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? {8:11} And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Messiah died. {8:12} Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Messiah. {8:13} Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble. ________________________________________________________________________ The World English Bible: Messianic Edition is in the Public Domain. This translation is also known as the Hebrew Names Version. "World English Bible," "World English Bible: Messianic Edition," and "World English Bible" are trademarks of Rainbow Missions, Inc., and may only be used as names for the Bible translations so named and distributed by Rainbow Missions, Inc., and faithful copies thereof. Typo reports are welcome at http://eBible.org/cgi-bin/comment.cgi. Please see http://HNVBible.org for updates. ______________________________________________ You are subscribed the HNV mailing list as arch...@jab.org. You may unsubscribe or change your address at any time at: http://lists.ebible.org/mailman/listinfo/hnv This list is being replaced by the list at http://groups.google.com/group/web-me, so you should subscribe to that one, and, if you don't want duplicate messages, unsubscribe from this one. http://RainbowMissions.org