1 Corinthians 8:1 (WEB)
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Fathers and councils · 12
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And for this reason Paul exclaimed, “Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth:” not that he meant to inveigh against a true knowledge of God, for in that case he would have accused himself; but, because he knew that some, puffed up by the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For now, filled with my punishment, I had begun to desire to seem wise; yet mourned I not, but rather was puffed up with knowledge.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“In the third place is mentioned knowledge; since, if knowledge in its greatness outstrips the increase of love, it doth not edify, but “puffeth up.”…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1.
Read the whole comment““Knowledge puffeth up, charity edifieth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…remains always after the same fashion, and lusts after knowledge by experiment upon things temporal and mutable, that knowledge puffeth up, it does not edify: so the mind is overweighed and thrust out, as it were, by its own weight from blessedness; and learns by its own punishment, through that trial of its own…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1
Read the whole comment“For knowledge also has its own good measure, if that in it which puffs up, or is wont to puff up, is conquered by love of eternal things, which does not puff up, but, as we know, edifieth.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1
Read the whole comment“And hence also that expression of the apostle, “Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Now the apostle, speaking with the Holy Spirit, says, “Knowledge puffeth up, but charity buildeth up.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“Therefore he added, “but charity edifieth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Whence it is said, “If any man loves, he is known.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1, 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“But the knowledge of those who think themselves wise, whether the barbarian sects or the philosophers among the Greeks, according to the apostle, “puffeth up.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1.
Read the whole comment“For by thy knowledge he that is weak is destroyed.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 1, 7, 9, 11.
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.13.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.1.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.1.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.26.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.26.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies II.11.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.
Cited together in Confessions VII.20.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 27.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.11.
Cited together in Confessions VII.20.