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chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/1_corinthians/10.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/10.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />So you may eat any meat that is sold in the marketplace without raising questions of conscience.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/1_corinthians/10.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />Eat everything being sold in <i>the</i> meat market, inquiring nothing on account of conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/10.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, <i>that</i> eat, asking no question for conscience sake:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/1_corinthians/10.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/1_corinthians/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions, for the sake of conscience;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/10.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience&#8217 sake;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/1_corinthians/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Eat anything that is sold in the meat market, without asking questions for conscience’ sake;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/1_corinthians/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />[Regarding meat offered to idols:] Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking any questions for the sake of your conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, without raising questions for the sake of conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience sake, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_corinthians/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/1_corinthians/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />However, when you buy meat in the market, go ahead and eat it. Keep your conscience clear by not asking where the meat came from. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_corinthians/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience sake;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/1_corinthians/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Eat anything that is sold in the market without letting your conscience trouble you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/1_corinthians/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />You are free to eat anything sold in the meat market, without asking any questions because of your conscience. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/1_corinthians/10.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it on the grounds of conscience, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/1_corinthians/10.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/1_corinthians/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_corinthians/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Whatever is sold in the provision market, that eat, asking no question for conscience' sake:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_corinthians/10.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask no questions for conscience' sake;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_corinthians/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/1_corinthians/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Eat whatever is sold in the meat-market, not inquiring, because of the conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />Eat everything being sold in <i>the</i> meat market, inquiring nothing on account of conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_corinthians/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/1_corinthians/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Every thing being sold in the market, eat, ye, interrogating nothing through consciousness:<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_corinthians/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat; asking no question for conscience' sake. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/1_corinthians/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Whatever is sold in the market, you may eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_corinthians/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Eat anything sold in the market, without raising questions on grounds of conscience,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_corinthians/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/1_corinthians/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Anything for sale in the market place, that eat without question for conscience sake:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/1_corinthians/10.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />Everything that is sold in the butcher's shop you may eat without inquiry because of conscience.<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/1_corinthians/10.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />Any thing that is sold in the market, eat, asking no questions on account of conscience:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/1_corinthians/10.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />Eat everything which is sold in market, asking no questions on account of conscience;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/1_corinthians/10.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />Every thing which is sold in the shambles eat, asking no question for conscience sake;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/1_corinthians/10.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, without making any scrupulous enquiry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_corinthians/10.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask no questions for conscience' sake;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/1_corinthians/10.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />Whatsoever is sold in the market eat, asking no question because of conscience;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/1_corinthians/10.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />Eat <i>then</i> whatever is sold in the shambles, asking no questions for conscience sake:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g-wZWoK_LZU?start=2134" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/1_corinthians/10.htm">All to God's Glory</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">24</span>No one should seek his own good, but the good of others. <span class="reftext">25</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/2068.htm" title="2068: esthiete (V-PMA-2P) -- Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat.">Eat</a> <a href="/greek/3956.htm" title="3956: Pan (Adj-ANS) -- All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.">anything</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: to (Art-ANS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/4453.htm" title="4453: pōloumenon (V-PPM/P-ANS) -- To sell, exchange, barter. Probably ultimately from pelomai; to barter, i.e. To sell.">sold</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/3111.htm" title="3111: makellō (N-DNS) -- A meat-market, marketplace. Of Latin origin; a butcher's stall, meat market or provision-shop.">the meat market</a> <a href="/greek/3367.htm" title="3367: mēden (Adj-ANS) -- No one, none, nothing. ">without</a> <a href="/greek/350.htm" title="350: anakrinontes (V-PPA-NMP) -- From ana and krino; properly, to scrutinize, i.e. investigate, interrogate, determine.">raising questions</a> <a href="/greek/1223.htm" title="1223: dia (Prep) -- A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.">of</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēn (Art-AFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/4893.htm" title="4893: syneidēsin (N-AFS) -- The conscience, a persisting notion. From a prolonged form of suneido; co-perception, i.e. Moral consciousness.">conscience,</a> </span> <span class="reftext">26</span>for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/10-15.htm">Acts 10:15</a></span><br />The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/14-14.htm">Romans 14:14</a></span><br />I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/14-20.htm">Romans 14:20</a></span><br />Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/7-18.htm">Mark 7:18-19</a></span><br />“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, / because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/4-4.htm">1 Timothy 4:4-5</a></span><br />For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected, / because it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/2-16.htm">Colossians 2:16</a></span><br />Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/15-11.htm">Matthew 15:11</a></span><br />A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/14-2.htm">Romans 14:2-3</a></span><br />For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables. / The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/14-23.htm">Romans 14:23</a></span><br />But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/9-3.htm">Genesis 9:3</a></span><br />Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/11-2.htm">Leviticus 11:2-47</a></span><br />“Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat: / You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. / But of those that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-3.htm">Deuteronomy 14:3-21</a></span><br />You must not eat any detestable thing. / These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat, / the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/66-17.htm">Isaiah 66:17</a></span><br />“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm">Ezekiel 4:14</a></span><br />“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/1-8.htm">Daniel 1:8</a></span><br />But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:</p><p class="hdg">sold.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/14-14.htm">Romans 14:14</a></b></br> I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that <i>there is</i> nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him <i>it is</i> unclean.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_timothy/4-4.htm">1 Timothy 4:4</a></b></br> For every creature of God <i>is</i> good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/titus/1-15.htm">Titus 1:15</a></b></br> Unto the pure all things <i>are</i> pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving <i>is</i> nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.</p><p class="hdg">for.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">1 Corinthians 10:27-29</a></b></br> If any of them that believe not bid you <i>to a feast</i>, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/8-7.htm">1 Corinthians 8:7</a></b></br> Howbeit <i>there is</i> not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat <i>it</i> as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/13-5.htm">Romans 13:5</a></b></br> Wherefore <i>ye</i> must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/43-16.htm">Butcher</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/8-12.htm">Conscience</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-18.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-19.htm">Food</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-16.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/romans/10-20.htm">Inquiring</a> <a href="/acts/25-20.htm">Inquiry</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-18.htm">Making</a> <a href="/acts/28-15.htm">Market</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-3.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-15.htm">Provision</a> <a href="/romans/16-23.htm">Public</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/8-4.htm">Question</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-4.htm">Questions</a> <a href="/acts/24-12.htm">Raising</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-18.htm">Right</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-25.htm">Sake</a> <a href="/psalms/44-12.htm">Sale</a> <a href="/romans/7-14.htm">Sold</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/7-24.htm">Whatever</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/2-9.htm">Whatsoever</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">Wrong</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/43-16.htm">Butcher</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Conscience</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-28.htm">Food</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-29.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-30.htm">Inquiring</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Inquiry</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Making</a> <a href="/psalms/55-11.htm">Market</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-28.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/philippians/1-19.htm">Provision</a> <a href="/colossians/2-15.htm">Public</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Question</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Questions</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/1-9.htm">Raising</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Right</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Sake</a> <a href="/revelation/18-11.htm">Sale</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-16.htm">Sold</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Whatever</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-27.htm">Whatsoever</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-28.htm">Wrong</a><div class="vheading2">1 Corinthians 10</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-1.htm">The sacraments of the Jews are types of ours;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-7.htm">and their punishments,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-11.htm">examples for us.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-13.htm">We must flee from idolatry.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-21.htm">We must not make the Lord's table the table of demons;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">24. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-24.htm">and in all things we must have regard for our brothers.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the context of the early Corinthian church, this instruction was significant because it addressed the issue of eating meat that may have been sacrificed to idols. Paul is emphasizing Christian liberty, suggesting that believers are free to partake in what is available without fear of spiritual contamination. This reflects the broader New Testament teaching that dietary laws are not binding on Christians, as seen in <a href="/acts/10-15.htm">Acts 10:15</a>, where Peter is told, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean."<p><b>sold in the meat market</b><br />The "meat market" or "μάκελλον" (makellon) in Greek, refers to a public place where meat was sold, often including meat that had been part of pagan sacrifices. In ancient Corinth, a city known for its diverse religious practices, the meat market would have been a bustling hub of commerce. Archaeological findings suggest that these markets were integral to daily life, and the meat sold there was not exclusively from pagan rituals. Paul's instruction acknowledges the practical reality of living in a pluralistic society and encourages believers to engage with the world without fear.<p><b>without raising questions of conscience</b><br />The phrase "without raising questions" translates from the Greek "ἀνακρίνοντες" (anakrinontes), meaning to examine or scrutinize. Paul advises the Corinthians not to engage in excessive questioning or moral scrutiny over the origins of their food. The term "conscience" or "συνείδησις" (syneidēsis) refers to the inner sense of right and wrong. Paul is teaching that the believer's conscience should be guided by faith and freedom in Christ, rather than by legalistic concerns. This reflects a broader biblical principle that the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (<a href="/romans/14-17.htm">Romans 14:17</a>).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_corinthians/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(25) <span class= "bld">Whatsoever is sold in the shambles.</span>--Here is the practical application of the principle laid down. When a Christian sees meat exposed for sale in the public market let him buy it and eat it; he need not ask any question to satisfy his conscience on the subject. Some of the meat which had been used for sacrificial purposes was afterwards sold in the markets. The weaker Christians feared lest if they unconsciously bought and ate some of that meat they would become thereby defiled. The Apostle's view is that when once sent into the public market it becomes simply meat, and its previous use gives it no significance. You buy it as meat, and not as part of a sacrifice. Thus the advice here is not at variance with the previous argument in <a href="/context/1_corinthians/10-20.htm" title="But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils.">1Corinthians 10:20-21</a>. The act which is there condemned as a "partaking of the table of devils" is the eating of sacrificial meat at one of the feasts given in the court of the heathen temple, when the meat was avowedly and significantly a portion of the sacrifice. The words "for conscience sake" have been variously interpreted as meaning, (1) Enter into no inquiry, so that your conscience may not be troubled, as it would be if you learned that the meat had been used for sacrifice; or, (2) Ask no question, lest some weak person's conscience be defiled if they hear that it is sacrificial meat and yet see you eat it. This latter interpretation must be rejected, as the Apostle clearly points out in <a href="/1_corinthians/10-28.htm" title="But if any man say to you, This is offered in sacrifice to idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:">1Corinthians 10:28</a> that he has been here speaking of the person's own conscience, and only there proceeds to speak of a brother's conscience.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_corinthians/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 25.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Whatsoever is sold.</span> By this practical rule of common sense he protects the weak Christian from being daily worried by over scrupulosity. If a Christian merely bought his meat in the open market, no one could suspect him of meaning thereby to connive at or show favour to idolatry. It would, therefore, be needless for him to entertain fantastic scruples about a matter purely indifferent. The fact of its forming part of an idol offering made no <span class="accented">intrinsic</span> difference in the food. <span class="cmt_word">Shambles;</span> <span class="accented">rather food market. <span class="cmt_word"></span>Asking no question for conscience sake.</span> Do not trouble your conscience by scruples arising from needless investigation (<span class="greek">ἀνακρίνων</span>) about the food. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">Eat</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐσθίετε</span> <span class="translit">(esthiete)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2068.htm">Strong's 2068: </a> </span><span class="str2">Strengthened for a primary edo; used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by phago; to eat.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">anything</span><br /><span class="grk">Πᾶν</span> <span class="translit">(Pan)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3956.htm">Strong's 3956: </a> </span><span class="str2">All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">sold</span><br /><span class="grk">πωλούμενον</span> <span class="translit">(pōloumenon)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4453.htm">Strong's 4453: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sell, exchange, barter. Probably ultimately from pelomai; to barter, i.e. To sell.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐν</span> <span class="translit">(en)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> </span><span class="str2">In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[the] meat market</span><br /><span class="grk">μακέλλῳ</span> <span class="translit">(makellō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3111.htm">Strong's 3111: </a> </span><span class="str2">A meat-market, marketplace. Of Latin origin; a butcher's stall, meat market or provision-shop.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">without</span><br /><span class="grk">μηδὲν</span> <span class="translit">(mēden)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3367.htm">Strong's 3367: </a> </span><span class="str2">No one, none, nothing. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">raising questions</span><br /><span class="grk">ἀνακρίνοντες</span> <span class="translit">(anakrinontes)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_350.htm">Strong's 350: </a> </span><span class="str2">From ana and krino; properly, to scrutinize, i.e. investigate, interrogate, determine.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of</span><br /><span class="grk">διὰ</span> <span class="translit">(dia)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1223.htm">Strong's 1223: </a> </span><span class="str2">A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">conscience,</span><br /><span class="grk">συνείδησιν</span> <span class="translit">(syneidēsin)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4893.htm">Strong's 4893: </a> </span><span class="str2">The conscience, a persisting notion. From a prolonged form of suneido; co-perception, i.e. Moral consciousness.</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">1 Corinthians 10:25 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/1_corinthians/10-25.htm">NT Letters: 1 Corinthians 10:25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop (1 Cor. 1C iC 1Cor i cor icor) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Corinthians 10:24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 10:24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-26.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Corinthians 10:26"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 10:26" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>