"Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, {that} eat, asking no question for conscience sake:" — 1 Corinthians 10:25

1 Corinthians 10:25 · KJV

“Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, {that} eat, asking no question for conscience sake:”

— 1 Corinthians 10:25

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's {wealth}.

For the earth {is} the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

1 Corinthians 10 — Context

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. {expedient: or, profitable}

Let no man seek his own, but every man another's {wealth}.

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, {that} eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

For the earth {is} the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

If any of them that believe not bid you {to a feast}, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

Cross References

1 Timothy 4:4

For every creature of God {is} good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

1 Corinthians 8:7

Howbeit {there is} not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat {it} as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

Titus 1:15

Unto the pure all things {are} pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving {is} nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Romans 14:14

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that {there is} nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him {it is} unclean. {unclean: Gr. common}

Romans 13:5

Wherefore {ye} must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Acts 10:15

And the voice {spake} unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, {that} call not thou common.

1 Corinthians 10:27-29

If any of them that believe not bid you {to a feast}, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.