1 Corinthians 10:27 BSB

1 Corinthians 10:27

If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.

BSB

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ASV

If one of them that believe not biddeth you to a feast, and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience’ sake.

KJV

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

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Commentary

2 voices

Clement of Alexandria

The Instructor Book 2 (215)

Wherefore daintiness is to be shunned, and we are to partake of few and necessary things. "And if one of the unbelievers call us to a feast, and we determine to go" (for it is a good thing not to mix with the dissolute), the apostle bids us "eat what is set before us, asking no questions for conscience sake." Similarly he has enjoined to purchase "what is sold in the shambles," without curious questioning. We are not, then, to abstain wholly from various kinds of food, but only are not to be taken up about them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And why then should they scrupulously enquire whether what was set before them had been sacrificed? It is to be understood of civil feasting, not religious; for the latter among the heathens was feasting upon their sacrifices, which he had condemned before as a participation in their idolatrous worship.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

If any of them that believe not - That are not Christians; that are still pagans. Bid you to a feast - Evidently not a feast in the temple of an idol, but at his own house. If he asks you to partake of his hospitality. And ye be disposed to go - Greek, “And you will to go.” It is evidently implied here that it would be not improper to go.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Εἴ	Ei	If	G1487 →
τις	tis	anyone	G5100 →
καλεῖ	kalei	invites	G2564 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
ἀπίστων	apistōn	unbelieving	G571 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
θέλετε	thelete	you wish	G2309 →
πορεύεσθαι,	poreuesthai	to go,	G4198 →
πᾶν	pan	everything	G3956 →
τὸ	to	which	G3588 →
παρατιθέμενον	paratithemenon	is being set before	G3908 →
ὑμῖν	humin	you	G4771 →
ἐσθίετε	esthiete	do eat	G2068 →
μηδὲν	mēden	nothing	G3367 →
ἀνακρίνοντες	anakrinontes	inquiring	G350 →
διὰ	dia	on account of	G1223 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
συνείδησιν·	suneidēsin	conscience;	G4893 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 4:2
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 5:11
  Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Corinthians 2:17
  For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:3–5
  For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.
- 2 Corinthians 11:13–15
  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 6:4–7
  Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
Through
1 Corinthians 10:25
Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
leads to
- 1 Timothy 4:4
  For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
- 1 Corinthians 8:7
  But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it…
- Titus 1:15
  To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

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