1 Corinthians 10:28 · KJV
“But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth {is} the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:”
— 1 Corinthians 10:28
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.
Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another {man's} conscience?
1 Corinthians 10 — Context
For the earth {is} the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
27If 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.
28But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth {is} the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
29Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another {man's} conscience?
30For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? {grace: or, thanksgiving}
Cross References
1 Corinthians 8:10-13
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; {emboldened: Gr. edified}
Romans 14:15
But if thy brother be grieved with {thy} meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. {charitably: Gr. according to charity}
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.
1 Corinthians 10:26
For the earth {is} the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 115:16
The heaven, {even} the heavens, {are} the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Jeremiah 27:5-6
I have made the earth, the man and the beast that {are} upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
Matthew 6:31-32
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens {is} the LORD'S thy God, the earth {also}, with all that therein {is}.