1 Corinthians 8 Cross References - Riverside

¹ NOW as to things that have been sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. ² If any one think; that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know. ³ If any one loves God, he is known by him. ⁴ Regarding the eating of things that have been sacrificed to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one. ⁵ And though there are so-called gods in heaven and on earth, for there are gods many and lords many, ⁶ still to us there is one God the Father, of whom are all things and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him. ⁷ But all have not this knowledge. Some, having been accustomed to idols up to the present time, eat the food as a sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience being weak is stained. ⁸ But food does not bring us near to God, for neither do we lose by not eating nor gain by eating. ⁹ But be careful that this power of yours may not become a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of that weak one be emboldened to eat things that have been sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ Thus the weak man is ruined by your knowledge — the brother for whom Christ died. ¹² So sinning against the brethren and wounding their weak consciences you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore if food makes my brother stumble I will not eat meat while the world stands, for fear of making my brother stumble.

²³ And then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work lawlessness.'

²⁷ "All things have been delivered tome by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son may choose to reveal him.

⁴⁹ Then, stretching out his hand over his disciples, he said, "See my mother and my brothers! ⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

⁶ and whoever causes one of these little ones that believe in me to stumble, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and be cast into the depths of the lake.

⁶ and whoever causes one of these little ones that believe in me to stumble, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and be cast into the depths of the lake. ⁷ Alas for the world because of the occasions of stumbling! It must be that such occasions come, but alas for the man through whom any one is tripped up!

¹⁰ See to it that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you, in heaven their angels continually behold the face of my Father in heaven.

²¹ Then Peter came to him and said, "How often, Sir, if my brother sins against me, shall I forgive him? Up to seven times?"

⁴⁰ The King will answer, 'I tell you truly, inasmuch as you did it to one of these my brothers — even the least — you did it to me.'

⁴⁵ He will answer them, 'I tell you truly inasmuch as you did not do it to one of these least, you did not do it to me.'

¹⁸ Jesus came to them and talked with them. He said, "To me has been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

²⁹ Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,

¹ HE said to his disciples, "It cannot be but that occasions of stumbling will arise, but alas for him through whom they come! ² It would be better for him if, with a millstone hung around his neck, he had been flung into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

³ All things came into being through him, and apart from him not one thing came into being that has come into being.

²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him what he is doing, and he will show him greater works than these that you may wonder. ²¹ For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. ²² Neither does the Father judge any one, but he has committed all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has life eternal and does not come into condemnation, but has passed over from death into life. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I tell you that the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷ He has given him authority to do judgment, because he is Son of Man. ²⁸ Do not wonder at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹ and will come forth — those who have done good to a resurrection of life and those who have done evil to a resurrection of condemnation.

¹⁴ I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me,

³⁰ I and my Father are one."

³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said you are Gods'? ³⁵ If he called those to whom the word of God came Gods — and the authority of Scripture cannot be denied —

¹³ You call me Teacher and Master and you say rightly, for so I am.

⁹ Jesus said, "Have I been so much time with you and you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I speak not of myself. The Father abides in me and does his works.

²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

³ This is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

²¹ that all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou didst send me. ²² The glory that thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one as we are one, ²³ I in them and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that thou didst send me and didst love them just as thou didst love me.

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brethren and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'

¹⁷ He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Master, you know all things. You know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

³⁶ Let all the house of Israel know surely that this Jesus, whom you crucified, God has made both Lord and Christ."

³¹ God has exalted him as Leader and Savior at his own right hand to give to Israel change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

⁴ He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" ⁵ He asked, "Who is speaking?" The answer was, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

¹⁵ "Men, why are you doing this? We too are men with the same weaknesses that you have. We are bringing you the good news that you are to turn from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them.

¹⁰ Now, therefore, why are you testing God by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

¹⁹ Therefore I judge best not to trouble those of the Gentiles who have turned to God, ²⁰ but to write to them to abstain from contamination with idols, and from unchastity, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

²⁹ to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from strangled things, and from unchastity. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farewell."

²⁸ For in him we live and move and are; as some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are his offspring.'

²⁶ and you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but also throughout almost all Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a large number, saying that hand-made gods are not gods at all.

²⁵ "But as to the Gentiles that have believed, we have, after consideration, sent our decision that they shall guard themselves against what has been sacrificed to idols, and against blood, and against what has been strangled, and against unchastity."

²⁸ We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those whom he foreknew he also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

² God has not repudiated his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he prays to God against Israel?

²⁵ I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that you may not be self-conceited, because stupidity in a measure has come upon Israel until the full number of Gentiles comes in,

³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory through the ages! Amen.

¹⁶ Be in harmony with one another. Do not be thinking of high things, but be content with humble things. Do not become conceited.

¹ WELCOME him who is weak in the faith, but not in order to decide disputed questions. ² One man believes in eating all things. The weak man eats vegetables. ³ The man who eats is not to despise the one who does not eat, and he who does not eat is not to judge the one who eats. For God has accepted him.

¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you treat your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God.

¹³ Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but let us rather decide not to put a stumbling block in a brother's way, or anything to trip him up. ¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiling in itself. But to one who thinks anything to be defiling it is defiling.

¹⁴ I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is defiling in itself. But to one who thinks anything to be defiling it is defiling. ¹⁵ If because of your food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking in love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

¹⁵ If because of your food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking in love. Do not with your food destroy him for whom Christ died.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ Do not for the sake of food break down the work of God. All things are pure, but anything is evil to the man who eats it with a feeling of doing wrong. ²¹ It is noble not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything over which your brother stumbles.

²¹ It is noble not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything over which your brother stumbles. ²² The faith that you have, have to yourself before God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself for what he allows himself.

²² The faith that you have, have to yourself before God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself for what he allows himself. ²³ He who has doubts and still eats stands condemned, because he is not acting from faith. But whatever does not spring from faith is sin.

²³ He who has doubts and still eats stands condemned, because he is not acting from faith. But whatever does not spring from faith is sin.

¹ WE who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

¹ WE who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Each of us should please his neighbor for his good so as to build him up. ³ For Christ did not please himself, but, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who were reproaching thee fell on me."

¹⁴ I am persuaded, my brethren — yes, I myself — regarding you, that you are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able to instruct one another.

² to the Church of God in Corinth, made holy in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

⁵ that you are rich in him in everything, in readiness of speech and in all knowledge,

¹⁰ I beg you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, all to say the same thing and not to have divisions among you, but to be united in the same mind and in the same opinion. ¹¹ For it has been told me regarding you, brethren, by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

⁹ But as it is written, "What eye has not seen and what ear has not heard and what has not entered human mind, God has prepared for those who love him."

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you thinks himself wise in this world, let him become a fool in order to become wise.

¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you have glory, but we are despised.

¹⁸ Some persons have become puffed up, thinking that I am not coming to you.

² And you are puffed up with pride and have not rather grieved and taken steps to expel from among you the doer of this deed!

⁶ Your boasting is unbecoming. Do you not know that a little yeast sets the whole mass fermenting?

¹² All things are lawful for me, but not everything is beneficial. All things are lawful, but I will not be overpowered by anything. ¹³ Food of all kinds is for the stomach and the stomach for foods. But God will end the function of one and the other. The body is not for unchastity, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

¹ NOW as to things that have been sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

¹ NOW as to things that have been sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. ² If any one think; that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

² If any one think; that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

⁴ Regarding the eating of things that have been sacrificed to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

⁶ still to us there is one God the Father, of whom are all things and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him. ⁷ But all have not this knowledge. Some, having been accustomed to idols up to the present time, eat the food as a sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience being weak is stained.

⁷ But all have not this knowledge. Some, having been accustomed to idols up to the present time, eat the food as a sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience being weak is stained.

⁹ But be careful that this power of yours may not become a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰ For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of that weak one be emboldened to eat things that have been sacrificed to idols?

¹⁰ For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of that weak one be emboldened to eat things that have been sacrificed to idols?

¹⁰ For if any one sees you who have knowledge reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of that weak one be emboldened to eat things that have been sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ Thus the weak man is ruined by your knowledge — the brother for whom Christ died. ¹² So sinning against the brethren and wounding their weak consciences you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore if food makes my brother stumble I will not eat meat while the world stands, for fear of making my brother stumble.

¹² If others share this right over you, do not we still more? But we have not used this right. No, we endure all things in order not to cause any hindrance to the good news of Christ.

¹⁹ For though I am free from all I have enslaved myself to all that I may gain the more. ²⁰ I became to the Jews a Jew, to gain the Jews; to those under law as under law, though not myself under law, to gain those who are under law. ²¹ To those without law, I became as without law, though not without the law of God and under the law of Christ, to gain those who are without law. ²² To the weak I became weak to gain the weak. To all men I became all things in order by all means to save some.

²² To the weak I became weak to gain the weak. To all men I became all things in order by all means to save some. ²³ I do all things for the sake of the good news that I may become a partner with it.

¹⁹ What then am I saying? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything or that an idol is anything?

¹⁹ What then am I saying? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ But I say that what they sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I would not have you become partakers with demons.

²⁰ But I say that what they sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I would not have you become partakers with demons.

²⁰ But I say that what they sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I would not have you become partakers with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. ²² Or are we arousing the jealousy of the Lord? Are we stronger than he?

²⁴ Let no one seek his own interest, but the interest of others.

²⁸ But if any one says to you, "This is meat that has been sacrificed," do not eat, for the sake of him who mentioned it and for conscience' sake —

²⁸ But if any one says to you, "This is meat that has been sacrificed," do not eat, for the sake of him who mentioned it and for conscience' sake — ²⁹ conscience, I say, not yours, but the other man's. For why is my liberty judged by the conscience of another?

²⁹ conscience, I say, not yours, but the other man's. For why is my liberty judged by the conscience of another?

³² Cause no offense either to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God, ³³ as I also in all things accommodate myself to all men, not seeking my own interest but that of the many, in order that they may be saved.

³ Therefore I inform you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

¹² For as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ.

¹ IF I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have the power of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I distribute all that I have to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love is longsuffering, love is kind, is not jealous, love does not boast, is not conceited, ⁵ does not behave unbecomingly, does not seek her own interest, is not irritable, does not count up her wrongs,

⁵ does not behave unbecomingly, does not seek her own interest, is not irritable, does not count up her wrongs, ⁶ does not rejoice in wickedness, but rejoices with the truth, ⁷ excuses all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but if there are prophetic powers, they will become useless; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will become useless.

⁸ Love never fails; but if there are prophetic powers, they will become useless; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will become useless. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes what is in part will become useless. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. Since I have become a man, I have no use for childish things. ¹² For as yet we are looking at puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then face to face. As yet I know in part, but then I shall know fully, as I have been fully known.

¹² For as yet we are looking at puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then face to face. As yet I know in part, but then I shall know fully, as I have been fully known. ¹³ But now faith, hope, love — these three — endure. And the greatest of these is love.

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in intelligence, but be babes in wickedness. In intelligence be adults.

³⁴ Return to soberness and cease to sin, for some are ignorant of God. I say it to your shame.

³ We give no occasion for stumbling to any one that our service may not be blamed,

²¹ I say it with shame as if we had been weak. But in whatever any one is bold (I say it foolishly) I too am bold.

²⁹ Who is weak and I am not weak? Who stumbles and I am not burning?

⁸ At the time when you did not know God you were enslaved to what by nature are not gods. ⁹ But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how are you turning back to the weak and beggarly elementary lessons to which you wish to be slaves again?

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not let your freedom be an opportunity for the flesh, but in love be servants to one another.

³ If any one thinks that he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly heights in Christ,

²⁰ which he put forth in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his own right hand in the heavenly heights, ²¹ far above every archangel and authority and power and lordship and every name that is named not only in this world but also in the world to come. ²² He put all things under his feet and placed him as head over all for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

¹⁴ For this reason I bow my knees to the Father

⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

¹⁶ from whom the whole body framed together and strengthened by what every joint supplies vigorously, in the measure of each, makes growth in building itself up in love.

⁹ Therefore, God has highly exalted him and has graciously given him the name which is above every name, ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of beings in heaven and those on earth and those under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

⁶ which has come to you. Just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also it is among you since the day that you heard and learned of the grace of God in truth.

¹⁶ for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or archangels or powers — all things have been created through him and for him, ¹⁷ and he is before all things and in him all things unite.

¹⁸ Let no one as umpire defraud you of your prize, if he delights in excessive humility and ceremonial worship of the angels, searching into his own visions, emptily puffed up by his fleshly mind

²⁰ If you died with Christ to the elementary teachings of the world, why do you, as if still living in the world, have such rules as, ²¹ "Do not touch," "Do not taste," "Do not handle" ²² referring to things that perish when used? ²³ These rules follow the commandments and teachings of men. They have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed ceremonial and excessive humility and severity to the body, but have no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

⁴ who opposes and exalts himself above everything called God and every object of worship, so that he enters the Temple of God and seats himself there, declaring that he himself is God.

⁵ The aim of the commandment is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. ⁶ Some missing these have turned aside to empty talk, ⁷ wishing to be teachers of the Law, but not understanding either what they are saying or what the things are that they are so positive about.

¹⁷ To the King of the ages, the immortal, invisible, only God, be honor and glory for the ages of the ages! Amen.

⁵ For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,

⁵ For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all, a fact to be witnessed to at the fitting time.

³ If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree to wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to religious teaching, ⁴ he is conceited, knowing nothing, but morbidly fond of disputes and controversies from which come envy, strife, abusive language, wicked suspicions,

¹⁹ However, God's solid foundation stands, with this inscription, "The Lord knows his own," and, "Let every one who names the Lord's name turn from wickedness."

⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth, depraved in mind, proved to be worthless as regards the faith. ⁹ But they will go no further, for their folly will be manifest to all as that of Jannes and Jambres became.

² but at the end of these days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things and through whom he made the world, ³ who is the reflection of his glory and the expression of his nature and sustains all things by his word of power, and who, when he had made purification from sins, took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

⁹ Do not be carried away with all sorts of foreign teachings. It is well to have the heart strengthened by grace, not by special kinds of food. Those who live in that way are not profited.

¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has been tested he will gain the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

⁵ Listen, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

² chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and made holy by the Spirit to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace be to you and peace be multiplied. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead —

⁸ whom you love though you have not seen him; in whom you have faith though now you do not see him, and you rejoice with unspeakable and glorious joy

²¹ who through him are faithful to God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

¹⁶ Live as free men, yet not using freedom as a cloak for wickedness, but as God's slaves.

¹⁹ While they promise them liberty they themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whatever any one is overcome to that he is enslaved.

¹⁹ We love because he first loved us.

² By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commands. ³ For this is the love of God, our keeping his commands. And his commands are not burden-some,

²⁵ to the only God our Savior, be, through Jesus Christ our Lord, glory, majesty, might, and authority, before all time and now and for all the ages! Amen.

¹⁸ and the living one. I became dead, but now I am living for the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

⁹ I know your distress and poverty, but you are rich, and I know the profane words from those who say that they are Jews though they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

¹³ I know where you live, where the throne of Satan is. Yet you are holding fast my name and did not disown faith in me even in the days when Antipas, my faithful witness, was killed beside you where Satan lives. ¹⁴ But I have a few things against you, because you have some who hold the teaching of Balaam who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel: to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit unchastity.

¹⁹ I know your works and your love and your faith and your service and your endurance, and that your last works are more than your first. ²⁰ But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and leads astray my servants to commit unchastity and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

⁸ "I know your deeds. See, I have set before you an opened door which no one can shut, because you have a little power and you have kept my word and have not disowned my name. ⁹ See, I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, men who call themselves Jews when they are not but are lying — I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they shall know that I have loved you.

¹⁵ "I know your deeds — that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! ¹⁶ So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I shall spew you out of my mouth.