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Bishops Bible 1568
| 8:1 | As touching thinges offred vnto idols, we are sure yt we all haue knowledge. Knowledge maketh a man swell: but loue edifieth. |
| 8:2 | If any man thynke that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. |
| 8:3 | But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him. |
| 8:4 | As concerning the eating of those thinges that are offered vnto idols, we are sure that an idoll is nothing in the worlde, and that there is none other God but one. |
| 8:5 | And though there be that are called gods, whether in heauen or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lordes many:) |
| 8:6 | Yet vnto vs is there but one God, [which is] the father, of whom are all thinges, and we in him, and one Lorde Iesus Christe, by whom are al thinges, and we by him. |
| 8:7 | But euery man hath not knowledge: For some hauing conscience of the idol vntill this houre, eate as a thing offred vnto idols, and so their conscience being weake, is defiled. |
| 8:8 | But meate maketh vs not acceptable to God: For neither if we eate, haue we the more, neither if we eate not, haue we the lesse. |
| 8:9 | But take heede lest by any meanes this libertie of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake. |
| 8:10 | For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at meate in the idols temple: shal not the conscience of him which is weake, be boldened to eate those thinges which are offred to idols, |
| 8:11 | And through thy knowledge shal the weake brother perishe, for whom Christe dyed? |
| 8:12 | When ye sinne so against the brethren, and wounde their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christe. |
| 8:13 | Wherefore, if meate offend my brother, I wyll eate no fleshe whyle the worlde standeth, lest I shoulde offende my brother. |
Bishops Bible 1568
The Bishops' Bible was produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and the 1602 edition was prescribed as the base text for the King James Bible completed in 1611. The thorough Calvinism of the Geneva Bible offended the Church of England, to which almost all of its bishops subscribed. They associated Calvinism with Presbyterianism, which sought to replace government of the church by bishops with government by lay elders. However, they were aware that the Great Bible of 1539 , which was the only version then legally authorized for use in Anglican worship, was severely deficient, in that much of the Old Testament and Apocrypha was translated from the Latin Vulgate, rather than from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. In an attempt to replace the objectionable Geneva translation, they circulated one of their own, which became known as the Bishops' Bible.