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|1 CorÃntios 8:1|
Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.
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2
|1 CorÃntios 8:2|
If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;
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3
|1 CorÃntios 8:3|
But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.
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4
|1 CorÃntios 8:4|
So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
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5
|1 CorÃntios 8:5|
For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,
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|1 CorÃntios 8:6|
There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.
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|1 CorÃntios 8:7|
Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.
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|1 CorÃntios 8:8|
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
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9
|1 CorÃntios 8:9|
But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.
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10
|1 CorÃntios 8:10|
For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?
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