2020 for JESUS - Day 279: JESUS is GOD... LORD, JESUS CHRIST... CHRIST

 

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

“Now about food sacrificed to idols: 

We know that ‘We all possess knowledge.’ But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. 

² Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. 

³ But whoever loves GOD is known by GOD.

⁴ So then, 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 indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), 

⁶ yet for us there is but one GOD,THE FATHER, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one LORD, JESUS CHRIST, through WHOM all things came and through WHOM we live.

⁷ But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. 

⁸ But food does not bring us near to GOD; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

⁹ Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 

¹⁰ For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 

¹¹ So this weak brother or sister, for whom CHRIST died, is destroyed by your knowledge. 

¹² When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against CHRIST. 

¹³ Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.”