What Does 1 Corinthians 10:25 Mean in the King James?
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
You do not have to investigate every hidden association behind ordinary food before you can receive it with a clear conscience.
THE MEANING
You can receive what is sold as food without turning uncertainty about its history into a verdict against yourself. Conscience does not require you to interrogate every ordinary thing before you eat.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that you must uncover every hidden connection behind a meal to keep yourself morally clear.
THE ROOT
ἀνακρίνοντες
anakrinontes
GROWS FROM
κρίνω
krinō
to separate, distinguish, or judge
“asking no question” in this verse is anakrinontes. The word for questioning carries the root sense of judging or sorting things out. The verse says this meal need not become a case you investigate and decide before you can eat.
ALSO GROWS
krisis: judgment, decision
κρίσις
It shows the judgment carried within the act of examining; this meal does not need to become a verdict.
kritēs: judge
κριτής
The same root names the one who judges, revealing how questioning can turn ordinary eating into a trial.
συνείδησις
syneidēsis
GROWS FROM
οἶδα (oida) + σύν (syn)
to know together; shared awareness
Conscience carries the sense of knowing-with: an inward awareness connected to what is recognized. Here, the food can be received without searching for a hidden fact to make uncertainty feel like guilt.
ALSO GROWS
oida: to know, perceive
οἶδα
This is the knowing within conscience; the verse does not require knowledge of every food’s unseen history.
sunoida: to know together, be conscious of
σύνοιδα
This compound makes the shared knowing in conscience audible: what one knows about a meal can shape its meaning.
THE PATTERN
Uncertain provenance alone does not make ordinary food morally contaminating; conscience responds to what is known and what that knowledge means.
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:THE THREAD
Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.This verse uses the same word for conscience, συνείδησις (syneidēsis), the knowing-with within a person. It opens the distinction: unknown marketplace food need not be investigated, while knowledge that gives food a charged meaning can affect another person’s conscience.
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