NHEBJE - I Corinthians - 8

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

8:2  But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

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

8:4  Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.

8:5  For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"

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

8:7  However, that knowledge is not in all men. But some, being so accustomed to idols until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

8:8  But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

8:9  But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

8:10  For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

8:11  And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whom the Christ died.

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

8:13  Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I do not cause my brother to stumble.