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1COR 8:7–8:13 ©

Do not eat meat offered to idols if that would encourage other believers to eat that food contrary to their conscience.

Do not eat meat offered to idols if that would encourage other believers to eat that food contrary to their conscience.

1 Corinthians 8:7-13

7Nevertheless, some people do not understand that idols are not really alive. In the past, some among you who are believers now were accustomed to believing that idols were really alive. As a result, when they eat such meat now, they still think that it was sacrificed to an idol that is alive. They are not sure that God allows believers to eat meat that has been offered to idols. So, when they eat such meat, they think that they have sinned. 8But God will not think more highly about us if we eat certain foods, or if we do not eat certain foods. That is, we are not more acceptable to God if we do not eat certain foods, nor are we more acceptable to him if we eat those foods. 9However, be sure that you do not do anything that God allows you to do, if by doing that you would encourage any of your fellow believers to do something that they are not sure God allows them to do. As a result, you would be causing them to sin. 10For example, you know that idols are not really alive. Suppose that in a temple where they worship idols you eat food that has been sacrificed to idols. Suppose that someone who is not sure whether God allows us to eat that food sees you eating it. You would be encouraging him to eat it, too. [RHQ] 11As a result, you who know that idols are not really alive, might cause that fellow believer, one for whom Christ died, to be ruined spiritually/to stop believing in Christ►. 12By sinning against your fellow believer by causing him to do something that he thinks God does not allow us to do, it is as though you are sinning against Christ himself! 13So if I, Paul, think that by eating a certain food I might cause a fellow believer to be ruined spiritually, I will never eat such food again. I do not want to cause any fellow believer to be ruined spiritually/to stop believing in Christ►. And you should do as I do/imitate my example►.

1COR 8:7–8:13 ©

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