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    "chapter": 8
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "1CO-8:1",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.1",
        "text": "Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth."
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "1CO-8:2",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.2",
        "text": "If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;"
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        "n": 3,
        "refId": "1CO-8:3",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.3",
        "text": "but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him."
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "1CO-8:4",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.4",
        "text": "Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no God but one."
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "1CO-8:5",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.5",
        "text": "For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "1CO-8:6",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.6",
        "text": "yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him."
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        "n": 7,
        "refId": "1CO-8:7",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.7",
        "text": "Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "1CO-8:8",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.8",
        "text": "But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "1CO-8:9",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.9",
        "text": "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "1CO-8:10",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.10",
        "text": "For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol`s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "1CO-8:11",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.11",
        "text": "For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "1CO-8:12",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.12",
        "text": "And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "1CO-8:13",
        "verseRef": "1CO.8.13",
        "text": "Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble."
      }
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