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Numbers 25:2 (Listen)

gThese invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Psalm 106:28 (Listen)

28 Then they ayoked themselves to the aBaal of Peor,

and ate sacrifices offered to bthe dead;

1 Corinthians 8:4 (Listen)

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that t“an idol has no real existence,” and that u“there is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 8:7 (Listen)

However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, athrough former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and btheir conscience, being weak, is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:10 (Listen)

10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating1 in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,2 if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

Footnotes

[1] 8:10 Greek reclining at table
[2] 8:10 Or fortified; Greek built up

1 Corinthians 10:27 (Listen)

27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, qeat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.