UNTO THIS HOUR

1 CORINTHIANS 8:1-13

NOW

 AS TOUCHING THINGS

 OFFERED UNTO IDOLS,

 WE KNOW

 THAT WE ALL

 HAVE KNOWLEDGE.

 KNOWLEDGE

 PUFFETH UP,

 BUT 

CHARITY EDIFIETH.

 AND

 IF ANY MAN THINK

 THAT HE KNOWETH

 ANY THING,

 HE KNOWETH NOTHING

 YET AS HE OUGHT

 TO KNOW.

  BUT IF 

ANY MAN

 LOVE GOD,

 THE SAME IS

 KNOWN OF HIM. 

AS CONCERNING 

THEREFORE THE EATING 

OF THOSE THINGS 

THAT ARE 

OFFERED IN SACRIFICE 

UNTO IDOLS, 

WE KNOW THAT 

AN IDOL IS NOTHING 

IN THE WORLD,

 AND 

THAT THERE IS

 NONE OTHER 

GOD BUT ONE.

 FOR THOUGH THERE

 BE THAT ARE CALLED

 gods, 

WHETHER

 IN HEAVEN OR IN EARTH,

 (AS THERE BE

 gods

 MANY, AND

 lords

 MANY,) BUT

 TO US

 THERE IS ONE GOD, 

THE FATHER,

 OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS,

 AND 

WE IN HIM;

 AND

 ONE LORD

 JESUS CHRIST,

 BY WHOM ARE ALL THINGS,

 AND 

WE BY HIM.

 HOWBEIT 

THERE IS NOT

 IN EVERY MAN

 THAT KNOWLEDGE:

 FOR SOME

 WITH CONSCIENCE

 OF THE IDOL

 UNTO THIS HOUR

 EAT IT AS A THING

 OFFERED UNTO AN IDOL;

 AND

 THEIR CONSCIENCE

 BEING WEAK

 IS DEFILED.

  BUT MEAT 

COMMANDETH 

US NOT TO GOD:

 FOR NEITHER,

 IF WE EAT,

 ARE WE THE BETTER;

 NEITHER, 

IF WE EAT NOT,

 ARE WE THE WORSE.

 BUT 

TAKE HEED

 LEST BY ANY MEANS

 THIS LIBERTY OF YOURS

 BECOME 

A STUMBLEINGBLOCK 

TO THEM 

THAT ARE WEAK.

 FOR IF ANY MAN

 SEE THEE WHICH HAST

 KNOWLEDGE

 SIT AT MEAT

 IN THE IDOL'S TEMPLE,

 SHALL NOT

 THE CONSCIENCE

 OF HIM WHICH IS WEAK

 BE EMBOLDENED

 TO EAT THOSE THINGS

 WHICH ARE OFFERED

 TO IDOLS;

 AND

 THROUGH THY KNOWLEDGE

 SHALL THE WEAK

 BROTHER PERISH,

 FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED?

 BUT 

WHEN YE SIN SO

 AGAINST BRETHREN,

 AND 

WOUND THEIR WEAK 

CONSCIENCE,

 YE SIN AGAINST CHRIST.

 WHEREFORE,

 IF MEAT

 MAKE MY BROTHER

 TO OFFEND,

 I WILL EAT

 NO FLESH

 WHILE THE WORLD STANDETH, 

LEST I MAKE 

MY BROTHER TO OFFEND. 

LOVE