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.
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Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. …
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: …
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-33)In this passage the apostle shows in what instances, notwithstanding, Christians might lawfully eat what had been sacrificed to idols. They must not eat it out of religious respect to the idol, nor go into his temple, and hold a feast there, upon what they knew was an idol-sacrifice; nor perhaps out of the temple, if they knew it was a feast held upon a sacrifice, but there were cases wherein they…
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