1 En cuanto a lo sacrificado a los ídolos, sabemos que todos tenemos conocimiento. El conocimiento envanece, pero el amor edifica. 2 Si alguien piensa que sabe algo, todavía no sabe como debe saber. 3 Pero si alguien ama a Dios, es conocido por Dios. 4 En cuanto a comer cosas sacrificadas a los ídolos, sabemos que un ídolo nada es en el mundo, y que no hay más que un solo Dios. 5 Porque aunque haya llamados dioses, sea en el cielo o en la tierra, como en verdad hay muchos dioses y muchos señores, 6 para nosotros hay un solo Dios, el Padre, de quien proceden todas las cosas, y nosotros somos para él; y un solo Señor, Jesucristo, por medio de quien son todas las cosas, y nosotros existimos por medio de él. 7 Pero no todos tienen este conocimiento. Algunos, acostumbrados hasta ahora al ídolo, comen como si la comida fuera realmente sacrificada al ídolo; y su conciencia, siendo débil, queda contaminada. 8 Pero la comida no nos acerca más a Dios. Si no comemos, no somos menos; y si comemos, no somos más. 9 Pero cuiden que esta libertad de ustedes no llegue a ser tropiezo para los débiles. 10 Porque si alguien te ve a ti, que tienes conocimiento, sentado a la mesa en un templo de ídolos, ¿no será animada su conciencia débil a comer lo sacrificado a los ídolos? 11 Así, por tu conocimiento, se pierde el hermano débil por quien Cristo murió. 12 Y al pecar así contra los hermanos, hiriendo su conciencia débil, pecan contra Cristo. 13 Por eso, si la comida hace tropezar a mi hermano, jamás comeré carne, para no hacer tropezar a mi hermano.
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- 1 1 Corinthians 8:7; Isaiah 5:21; Romans 14:3; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Revelation 2:14
- 2 1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Corinthians 3:18; Galatians 6:3; Proverbs 26:12; 1 Timothy 6:3–4
- 3 Revelation 3:8–9; Exodus 33:17; Nahum 1:7; 2 Timothy 2:19; 1 Corinthians 2:9
- 4 Deuteronomy 4:39; 1 Corinthians 10:19–20; Ephesians 4:6; Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Timothy 2:5
- 5 Galatians 4:8; Jeremiah 2:28; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Jeremiah 11:13; Jeremiah 2:11
- 6 Romans 11:36; John 1:3; Malachi 2:10; Hebrews 1:2–3; Colossians 1:16–17
- 7 Romans 14:14; 1 Corinthians 10:28–29; 1 Corinthians 8:9–10; Romans 14:22–23; 1 Corinthians 1:10–11
- 8 Romans 14:17; Hebrews 13:9; 1 Corinthians 6:13; Colossians 2:20–23
- 9 Galatians 5:13; Romans 14:20–21; 1 Peter 2:16; 2 Peter 2:19; Romans 14:1–2
- 10 1 Corinthians 10:28–29; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Romans 14:23; 1 Corinthians 10:20–21; 1 Corinthians 8:1–2
- 11 Romans 14:15; Romans 15:1–3; 1 Corinthians 8:13; 1 Corinthians 10:33–11:1; Romans 14:20–21
- 12 Matthew 18:6; Matthew 25:45; 1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Samuel 2:25; Acts 9:4–5
- 13 Romans 14:21; 2 Corinthians 11:29; 2 Corinthians 6:3; 1 Corinthians 6:12; 1 Corinthians 13:5
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It is necessary first to say what the meaning of this passage is: for so shall we readily comprehend the Apostle's discourse. For he that sees a charge brought against any one, except he first perceive the nature of the offence will not understand what is said. What then is it of which he was then accusing the Corinthians?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
And for this reason Paul exclaimed, "Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth:" not that he meant to inveigh against a true knowledge of God, for in that case he would have accused himself; but, because he knew that some, puffed up by the pretence of knowledge, fall away from the love of God, and imagine that they themselves are perfect, …
For now, filled with my punishment, I had begun to desire to seem wise; yet mourned I not, but rather was puffed up with knowledge. For where was that charity building upon the "foundation" of humility, "which is Jesus Christ"?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
He again, to put an end to his fears and the other's disputatiousness, says, "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink." Is it by these, he means, that we are to be approved? As he says in another passage too, "Neither if we eat are we the better, neither if we eat not are we the worse." …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; yet to us there is One God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and One Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)