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1 Corinthians 8:1. And we know about idol sacrifices 15, because all... we... have knowledge... those who go there 16 for food, who spares her neighbors, does not allow anyone to go there, and she 1 Corinthians 8:2. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he... does not yet know as he should know, for there are very many things that he did not know. to help (his neighbors), he knew. 1 Corinthians 8:4. We know about eating idol sacrifices that... nothing... is an idol in the world, and between all the called gods there is no other God but One only. 1 Corinthians 8:5. Because although there is objects to which worship is given, - as I have already said, just as in the sky the sun and the moon (for example) are called gods, and also other objects on earth, 1 Corinthians 8:6. - but for us there is one God the Father, from whom all things were created, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created. 1 Corinthians 8:7. But not everyone has the knowledge about the subject I spoke about. There are some simpletons among the believers who go to eat in the house of the idol. But since believers see that priests and teachers go there and, due to the instability of their minds, are considered unclean, just as they quickly think that what we eat here (in churches) is like an idol's victims. 1 Corinthians 8:9. beware... that this power, which you have, either by eating (tasting) everything, or by not abstaining from entering those places, in any way did not serve as a temptation for the weak. of the brothers will be unsteady in mind and He will see you, who have knowledge, reclining there, - then he, with a false view of the victim, is carried away by the desire to eat 1 Corinthians 8:11. the innocent perished, for whose sake Christ... died. So, do not lead your brothers into sin and do not tempt them, that is, do not make them hesitate for the sake of 1 Corinthians 8:12. conscience and their... weak. Do not consider this as something easy, because you sin against Christ... if you do not protect your brothers. Truly, if my brother is tempted because of the food that is thrown into the latrines, then I will not only abstain from meat, which is eaten in a few days in the house of the idol, but completely 1 Corinthians 8:13. I will not eat meat forever, lest I tempt my brother... Literally: “meats sacrificed to idols.” You might be interested in: