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Two adults consider meat in a Corinthian market.
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1 Corinthians 8:7-8

Conscience and Food

Love, Knowledge, and Conscience · 1 Corinthians 8

Story guide: Paul notes not everyone shares the same knowledge, and eating or abstaining does not commend someone to God.

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7But not everyone has this knowledge. Some, through familiarity with the idol until now, eat it as food sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8But food will not commend us to God; for neither if we eat do we abound, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

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