Darby - I Corinthians - 8

8:1  But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

8:2  If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].

8:3  But if any one loveGod, he is known of him):

8:4  — concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no otherGod save one.

8:5  For and if indeed there are [those] calledgods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there aregods many, and lords many,)

8:6  yet to us [there is] oneGod, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.

8:7  But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8:8  But meat does not commend us toGod; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

8:9  But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

8:10  For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

8:11  and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.

8:12  Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

8:13  Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.