Common - I Corinthians - 8

8:1  Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

8:2  If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

8:3  But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.

8:4  Therefore concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

8:5  For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"),

8:6  yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we exist.

8:7  However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, being accustomed to idols, eat food as really sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8:8  But food will not commend us to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.

8:9  But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

8:10  For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, at table in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

8:11  And so by your knowledge this weak man is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

8:12  Thus, sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

8:13  Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to fall.