Bible verse

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:1 · BSB

1 Corinthians 8:1 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 8.

1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

3 But the one who loves God is known by God.

4 So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),

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1 Corinthians 8:1 in other translations

KJV

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

ASV

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

ERV

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

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