1 Now about “food sacrificed to idols.” So “we all have knowledge” about this subject. Knowledge makes us proud, but love strengthens us. 2 If anyone thinks they know anything, they don't know as they really should know! 3 But whoever loves God is known by God. 4 So regarding eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that there are no such things as idols in the world, and that there is only one real God. 5 Even though there are some things called “gods,” whether in heaven or on earth—in fact there are many “gods” and “lords.” 6 But for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything was made, and he is the goal of our existence; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made, and he is the means of our existence. 7 But not everyone has this “knowledge.” Some who up to now have been so used to idols as a reality that when they eat food sacrificed to an idol, their conscience (which is weak) tells them they have defiled themselves. 8 But food doesn't gain us God's approval! If we don't eat this food, we're not bad, and if we do eat this food, we're not good. 9 Just take care not to use this freedom you have to eat food sacrificed to idols to become offensive to those with a weaker attitude. 10 If another believer sees you who have such “better knowledge” eating food in an idol temple, won't his weak conscience be convinced to eat food sacrificed to idols? 11 By your “better knowledge” the weaker believer is destroyed, a believer for whom Christ died. 12 In this way you sin against other believers, wounding their weaker consciences, and you sin against Christ. 13 So if eating food sacrificed to idols would cause my fellow believer to stumble, I will never eat such meat ever again, so that I don't offend any believer.
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Referencias cruzadas (13)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Corintios 8:7; Isaías 5:21; Romanos 14:3; 1 Corintios 8:4; Apocalipsis 2:14
- 2 1 Corintios 13:12; 1 Corintios 3:18; Gálatas 6:3; Proverbios 26:12; 1 Timoteo 6:3–4
- 3 Apocalipsis 3:8–9; Éxodo 33:17; Nahúm 1:7; 2 Timoteo 2:19; 1 Corintios 2:9
- 4 Deuteronomio 4:39; 1 Corintios 10:19–20; Efesios 4:6; Deuteronomio 6:4; 1 Timoteo 2:5
- 5 Gálatas 4:8; Jeremías 2:28; 2 Tesalonicenses 2:4; Jeremías 11:13; Jeremías 2:11
- 6 Romanos 11:36; Juan 1:3; Malaquías 2:10; Hebreos 1:2–3; Colosenses 1:16–17
- 7 Romanos 14:14; 1 Corintios 10:28–29; 1 Corintios 8:9–10; Romanos 14:22–23; 1 Corintios 1:10–11
- 8 Romanos 14:17; Hebreos 13:9; 1 Corintios 6:13; Colosenses 2:20–23
- 9 Gálatas 5:13; Romanos 14:20–21; 1 Pedro 2:16; 2 Pedro 2:19; Romanos 14:1–2
- 10 1 Corintios 10:28–29; 1 Corintios 8:4; Romanos 14:23; 1 Corintios 10:20–21; 1 Corintios 8:1–2
- 11 Romanos 14:15; Romanos 15:1–3; 1 Corintios 8:13; 1 Corintios 10:33–11:1; Romanos 14:20–21
- 12 Mateo 18:6; Mateo 25:45; 1 Corintios 12:12; 1 Samuel 2:25; Hechos 9:4–5
- 13 Romanos 14:21; 2 Corintios 11:29; 2 Corintios 6:3; 1 Corintios 6:12; 1 Corintios 13:5
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
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?
Leer en contexto · 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"?
Leer en contexto · 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." …
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)