Cross references

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8:1 BSB

1 Corinthians 8:1 has 32 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Corinthians 8:7 (11 votes) and Isaiah 5:21 (10 votes). 33 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 2 to Revelation 2.

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Which verses does 1 Corinthians 8:1 point to?

The 20 strongest of 32, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

  2. Isaiah 5:2110 votes

    Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

  3. The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

  4. So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.

  5. But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

  6. I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

  7. The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

  8. who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.

  9. You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

  10. It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

  11. Acts 15:293 votes
  12. Acts 15:102 votes
  13. Acts 21:252 votes
  14. Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. …

  15. But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—

Which verses point to 1 Corinthians 8:1?

The 10 strongest of 33.