1 Corinthians 8:1 BSB

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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ASV

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

KJV

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

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Commentary

3 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book II (202)

It is therefore better and more profitable to belong to the simple and unlettered class, and by means of love to attain to nearness to God, than, by imagining ourselves learned and skilful, to be found [among those who are] blasphemous against their own God, inasmuch as they conjure up another God as the Father.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Now as touching - In regard to; in answer to your inquiry whether it is right or not to partake of those things. Things offered unto idols - Sacrifices unto idols. Meat that had been offered in sacrifice, and then either exposed to sale in the market, or served up at the feasts held in honor of idols, at their temples, or at the houses of their devotees.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Paul replies, "We are aware that we all have [speaking generally, and so far as Christian theory goes; for in 1Co 8:7 he speaks of some who practically have not] this knowledge." Knowledge puffeth up--when without "love." Here a parenthesis begins; and the main subject is resumed in the same words, 1Co 8:4.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Περὶ	Peri	Concerning	G4012 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
εἰδωλοθύτων,	eidōlothutōn	idol-sacrifices,	G1494 →
οἴδαμεν	oidamen	we know
ὅτι	hoti	indeed	G3754 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
γνῶσιν	gnōsin	knowledge	G1108 →
ἔχομεν.	echomen	we have.	G2192 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
γνῶσις	gnōsis	Knowledge	G1108 →
φυσιοῖ,	phusioi	puffs up,	G5448 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	but	G1161 →
ἀγάπη	agapē	love	G26 →
οἰκοδομεῖ.	oikodomei	builds up.	G3618 →

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

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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
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food…
leads to
- Numbers 31:16
  “Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.
- 2 Peter 2:15
  They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
- Revelation 2:20
  But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
- Numbers 25:1–3
  While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
Through
Isaiah 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 3:18–20
  Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
Through
Romans 14:3
The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.
leads to
- Romans 14:10
  Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.
- Colossians 2:16–17
  Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
Through
1 Corinthians 8:4
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 4:39
  Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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About 1 Corinthians