dynamicbible/bibles/asv/46-8.json

{"ch":8,"vss":[{"v":1,"w":[{"t":"Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth."}]},{"v":2,"w":[{"t":"If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;"}]},{"v":3,"w":[{"t":"but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him."}]},{"v":4,"w":[{"t":"Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no God but one."}]},{"v":5,"w":[{"t":"For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;"}]},{"v":6,"w":[{"t":"yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him."}]},{"v":7,"w":[{"t":"Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled."}]},{"v":8,"w":[{"t":"But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better."}]},{"v":9,"w":[{"t":"But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak."}]},{"v":10,"w":[{"t":"For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol`s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?"}]},{"v":11,"w":[{"t":"For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died."}]},{"v":12,"w":[{"t":"And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ."}]},{"v":13,"w":[{"t":"Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble."}]}]}