1 Corinthians 10:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: ”

• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Whatsoever is sold in the shambles - In the market. The meat of animals offered in sacrifice would be exposed there to sale as well as other meat. The apostle says that it might be purchased, sin...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (7) Whatsoever is sold in the (u) shambles, [that] eat, asking no question for conscience sake: (7) An applying of the rule to the present matter: whatever is sold in the market, you may indifferent...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Corinthians 10:23 to 1 Corinthians 11:1 . From the meal in the idol's temple Paul passes to the question as it arose in daily life. He repeats that while all might be lawful all was not expedien...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Whatsoever . All which. shambles . Greek. makellon. Only here. asking no question . questioning nothing (Greek. medeis) . asking . App-122. for... sake . on account of. App-104. 1 Corint...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  25. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles He has spoken above of dissembling in connection with idolatry, or, at least, as to those actions which the Corinthians could not engage in, without pr...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat - The case to which the apostle refers is simply this; it was cust...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Whatsoever is sold in the shambles— Herodotus informs us, that the Egyptians, when they had cut off the head of the victim, used to carry the carcase to market, and sell it to the Greeks, if they...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: Shambles - butchers' stalls. Asking no question - whether it has been offered to idols or not. For...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  (b) Food offered to Idols In these Chapter s St. Paul answers another question of the Corinthians—as to the lawfulness of eating food which had been offered in sacrifice to idols. This was a ver...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 ne...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 15 FALLACIOUS PRESUMPTIONS IN discussing the question regarding "things offered unto idols," Paul is led to treat at large of Christian liberty, a subject to which he was always drawn. An...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Do All to the Glory of God” 1 Corinthians 10:23-33 ; 1 Corinthians 11:1 There seems to be a, clear distinction in the Apostle's directions between feasting in an idol temple on the one hand,...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  A great warning based on an illustration in Israel's history is contained in these words, "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." To this warning the apostle adds that t...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (23) All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. (24) Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. (25) Whatsoe...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Whatsoever is sold in the shambles ,.... the word μακελλον, rendered "shambles", here used, is a Latin word, and is made use of by Latin writers in the same sense as here, for a place where food wa...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: Ver. 25. Whatsoever is sold, &c. ] A portion of the consecrated flesh was usually sold by the priests,...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The apostle now applies this principle to the point in question; and on the ground of it, gives the following rules concerning meats. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles Though it were offered to id...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Just as, in the end of chapter 9, Paul shows himself willing to submit to a serious test as to the reality of his Christianity, so in the first of chapter 10 it is plain that all who claim the place...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christian Liberty. A. D.  57.       23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedie...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It is possible that butchers, before they brought their meat into the market, might offer some part of it to the idol; or it is possible that the priests, who had a share in the beasts offered to ido...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  'Whatever is sold in the shambles (meat market), eat, asking no question for conscience' sake, for the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness.' But having forbidden the eating of sacrificial meat in...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 10:1 .—Notice “ for ,” true reading, connecting closely with ix. ult. Q.d . “I am not secure from becoming a ‘castaway’; you are not yet sure of the prize; for it...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  1 Corinthians 10:15-19 . I Speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the com...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Corinthians 10:1 . I would not have you ignorant of the grand point, the foundation of the Hebrew religion; that our fathers, for such was the usual language of the jews and proselytes respect...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 10:1-46 Warnings against over confidence in relation to idolatry and other temptations. 1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover ; rather, for. He has just shown the...

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Whatsoever is sold in the shambles that eat, asking no question for conscience' sake;

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:27-29 ; 1 Corinthians 8:7 ; 1 Timothy 4:4 ; Romans 13:5 ; Romans 14:14 ; Titus 1:15

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• 1 Corinthians 10:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The apostle now applies this principle to the point in question. Asking no questions — Whether it has been sacrificed or not.

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