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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 8:4 in context
1 Corinthians 8:1–7
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Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
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But anyone who loves God is known by him.
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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.
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For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
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yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
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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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