1 Corinthians 8:7

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

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

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Let all that you do be done in love.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;

“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.”

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Don’t be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”