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. Cross References Deuteronomy 4:35 You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him. Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. Psalm 86:10 For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God. Isaiah 41:24 Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable. Acts 14:15 "Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them. Acts 15:20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood. Acts 19:26 And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all. 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 8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist. 1 Corinthians 8:7 But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 1 Corinthians 8:10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols? 1 Corinthians 8:11 So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 1 Corinthians 10:19 Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? Galatians 4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, Treasury of Scripture As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. we know. 1 Corinthians 10:19,20 Psalm 115:4-8 Isaiah 41:24 there is. 1 Corinthians 8:6 Deuteronomy 3:24 Deuteronomy 4:39 |