1st Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 25 Holy Bible
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake,
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Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;
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Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.
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Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
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Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
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Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - Whatsoever is sold. 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 intrinsic difference in the food. Shambles; rather food market. Asking no question for conscience sake. Do not trouble your conscience by scruples arising from needless investigation (ἀνακρίνων) about the food.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) Whatsoever is sold in the shambles.--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 1Corinthians 10:20-21. 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 1Corinthians 10:28 that he has been here speaking of the person's own conscience, and only there proceeds to speak of a brother's conscience.
