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Knowledge puffeth up, etc... Knowledge, without charity and humility,
serveth only to puff persons up.
8:2. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet
known as he ought to know.
8:3. But if any man love God, the same is known by him.
8:4. But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an
idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.
8:5. For although there be that are called gods, either in heaven or on
earth (for there be gods many and lords many):
Gods many, etc... Reputed for such among the heathens.
8:6. Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,
and we unto him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and
we by him.
8:7. But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this
present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an
idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8:8. But meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat, shall
we have the more: nor, if we eat not, shall we have the less.
8:9. But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a
stumblingblock to the weak.
8:10. For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's
temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those
things which are sacrificed to idols?
8:11. And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom
Christ hath died?
8:12. Now when you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak
conscience, you sin against Christ.
8:13. Wherefore, if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh,
lest I should scandalize my brother.
If meat scandalize... That is, if my eating cause my brother to sin.
1 Corinthians Chapter 9
The apostle did not make use of his power of being maintained at the
charges of those to whom he preached, that he might give no hindrance to
the gospel. Of running in the race and striving for the mastery.
9:1. Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus
our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?
9:2. And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For
you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
9:3. My defence with them that do examine me is this.
9:4. Have not we power to eat and to drink?
9:5. Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the
rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?
A woman, a sister... Some erroneous translators have corrupted this text
by rendering it, a sister, a wife: whereas, it is certain, St. Paul had
no wife (chap. 7 ver. 7, 8) and that he only speaks of such devout
women, as, according to the custom of the Jewish nation, waited upon the
preachers of the gospel, and supplied them with necessaries.
9:6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to do this?
9:7. Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who
planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth
the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
9:8. Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also
say; these things?
9:9. For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the
mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
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