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Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
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And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
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But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
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Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
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For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
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yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
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However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.