Acts 21:25
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25 But as for the Gentiles who have believed, (A)we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled,[a] and from sexual immorality.”
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- Acts 21:25 Some manuscripts omit and from what has been strangled
Acts 21:25
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25 As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”(A)
1 Corinthians 8:1
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Food Offered to Idols
8 Now concerning[a] (A)food offered to idols: we know that (B)“all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” (C)puffs up, (D)but love builds up.
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- 1 Corinthians 8:1 The expression Now concerning introduces a reply to a question in the Corinthians' letter; see 7:1
1 Corinthians 8:1
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Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols
8 Now about food sacrificed to idols:(A) We know that “We all possess knowledge.”(B) But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
1 Corinthians 8:4
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4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that (A)“an idol has no real existence,” and that (B)“there is no God but one.”
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1 Corinthians 8:4
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4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols:(A) We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world”(B) and that “There is no God but one.”(C)
1 Corinthians 8:7
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7 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, (A)through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and (B)their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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1 Corinthians 8:7
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7 But not everyone possesses this knowledge.(A) Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak,(B) it is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:10
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10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating[a] in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,[b] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
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- 1 Corinthians 8:10 Greek reclining at table
- 1 Corinthians 8:10 Or fortified; Greek built up
1 Corinthians 8:10
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10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?(A)
1 Corinthians 10:19
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19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that (A)an idol is anything?
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1 Corinthians 10:19
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19 Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?(A)
Revelation 2:14
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14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of (A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might (B)eat food sacrificed to idols and (C)practice sexual immorality.
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Revelation 2:14
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Revelation 2:20
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20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman (A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants (B)to practice sexual immorality and (C)to eat food sacrificed to idols.
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Revelation 2:20
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