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\subsection{I Corinthians 8}
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\VS{1} Now concerning [things] offered to idols, we know that we have all knowledge.
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Knowledge puffs up, but agape-love builds up.
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\VS{2} If anyone supposes he
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knows\footnote{or ``seems to know''} anything, he has not yet known just as
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he must know.
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\VS{3} But if anyone agape-loves God, this [one] is known by him.
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\VS{4} Concerning therefore the food offered to idols, we know that [an] idol in
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the world is nothing, and that no one [is] God except one.
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\VS{5} For though
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there are [those] called gods whether in heaven or upon earth, even as there are many gods and many lords,
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\VS{6} to us [there is], however, one God the father, from
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whom [is] everything, and we through him.
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\VS{7} But [this] knowledge is not in
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everyone; for some, in the habit, eat of the idol as food offered to idols,
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and their conscience being weak, they are polluted.
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\VS{8} But food does not
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bring us to God, neither if we do not eat are we the worse, nor if we eat
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are we the better.
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\VS{9} But seeing [that] this authority [of yours] not somehow become
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[an] offense to the weak.
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\VS{10} For if anyone see you, the [one] having knowledge,
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lying in the idol's temple, won't his conscience being weak be built up to
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be eating the [things] offered to idols?
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\VS{11} For the [one] being weak will be ruined
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by your knowledge, the brother in whose behalf Christ died.
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\VS{12} So thus
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sinning against the brothers and beating their conscience you sin against
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Christ.
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\VS{13} Wherefore if food stumbles my brother, I will \negd{not} eat meat to eternity, in order that I not stumble my brother.
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