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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 8:7 in context
1 Corinthians 8:4–10
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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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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.
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But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
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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?
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