EMTV - I Corinthians - 8

8:1  Now concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

8:2  And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.

8:3  But if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him.

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

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

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

8:7  However, this knowledge is not in all people; rather some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as something offered to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8:8  But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack.

8:9  But take heed lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

8:10  For if anyone should see you who has knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened so that they eat foods offered to idols?

8:11  And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for the sake of whom Christ died?

8:12  But when you thus sin against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

8:13  Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will by no means eat meat, lest I cause my brother to stumble.