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1 Corinthians 10:25

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    What soever is solde in the market that eate and axe no questions for conscience sake.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    Whatsoeuer is solde in the shambles, eate ye, and aske no question for conscience sake.

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Cross-references (7)

Passages linked to 1 Corinthians 10:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
  • 1 Corinthians 8:7 However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
  • Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
  • Romans 14:14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
  • Acts 10:15 A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
  • Romans 13:5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:27-29 But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience. But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, with all its fullness.” Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

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Explain this verse (20 sources)

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles He has…

25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles He has spoken above of dissembling in connection with idolatry, or, at least, as to those actions which the Corinthians could not engage in, without professing themselves to be the associates of the wicked in their superstitions. He now requires them, not merely to abstain from all professions of idolatry, but also to avoid carefully all occasions of offense, which are wont to arise from the indiscriminate use of things indifferent. For, although there was but one kind of offense on the part of the Corinthians, there were, at the same time different degrees of it. Now, as to the eating of food, he makes, in the first place, this general statement — that it is lawful to eat, with a safe conscience, any kind of food, because the Lord permits it. In the second place, he restricts this liberty as to the use of it — lest weak consciences should be injured. Thus this conclusion is divided into two parts the first relates to liberty and power as to things indifferent: the second to a limitation of it — that the use of it may be regulated in accordance with the rule of love.

Debating nothing ᾿Ανακρίνεσθαι, the word that Paul makes use of, means to reason on both sides, in such a way, that the person’s mind vacillates, inclining now to this side, and then to that. Accordingly, in so far as concerns a distinction of meats, he frees our consciences from all scruple and hesitation; because it is proper that, when we are certain from the word of the Lord that he approves of what we do, we should have ease and tranquillity in our minds.

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For conscience sake — that is to say, Before the judgment-seat of God — “In so far as you have to do with God, there is no occasion for your disputing with yourself, whether it be lawful or not. For I allow you to eat freely of all kinds of meat, because the Lord allows you everything without exception.”

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The flesh that was sacrificed, was used to be…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain It is possible that butchers, before they brought their…
William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain Here the apostle resolves the case, whether it were…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Whatsoever is sold in the shambles,.... the word rendered…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The apostle now applies this principle to the point…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Co 10:25-26. The apostle now applies this principle to…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Whatsoever is sold in the shambles - In the…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain shambles--butchers' stalls; the flesh market.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. Whatsoever is sold—The meats of idol sacrifices were…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles] This and…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) Whatsoever is sold in the shambles.—Here is the…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Whatsoever is sold. By this practical rule of common…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles. In the…
William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain 25. “Eat everything sold in market, asking no questions…
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no…
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain Rules of conduct:
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 you without asking questions of conscience

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