{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:44:37.213Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":8,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But if any one love God, he is known of him):"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But knowledge is not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and the weak one, the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 8 (DBT)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 8](https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/8 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}