1 Now concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.
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 other God but one.
5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
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 we through him.
7 However, not all have this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat it as a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 But food does not commend us to God; for neither, if we eat, do we abound, nor, if we do not eat, do we lack.
9 But take heed lest by any means this right of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
10 For if anyone sees you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's house, will not the conscience of him who is weak be built up to eat the things sacrificed to idols?
11 And through your knowledge the weak brother will perish, for whom Christ died.
12 And so, sinning against the brothers and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat, that I may not cause my brother to stumble.