Now, if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing, yet as he ought to know.

But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

[a]Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed unto [b]idols, we know that an idol is [c]nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:4 The application of that answer to things offered to idols: I grant, saith he that an idol is indeed a vain imagination, and that there is but one God and Lord, herefore that meat cannot be made holy or profane by the idol: but it followeth not therefore that a man may without respect use those meats as any other.
  2. 1 Corinthians 8:4 This word (idol) in this place is taken for an image which is made to present some godhead, that worship might be given unto it: whereupon came the word (idolatry) that is to say, Image service.
  3. 1 Corinthians 8:4 It is a vain dream.

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