| 1 | Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. |
| 2 | And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. |
| 3 | But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him. |
| 4 | Therefore concerning the eating of things offered 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 through whom we live. |
| 7 | However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. |
| 8 | But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse. |
| 9 | But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak. |
| 10 | For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol`s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? |
| 11 | And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? |
| 12 | But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. |
| 13 | Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. |