1 Corinthians 8

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

²But if anyone thinks he has come to know something, he does not yet know anything as he ought to know.

³But if anyone loves God, this person has been known by him.

⁴Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

⁵For even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth — as indeed there are many gods and many lords —

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

⁷But this knowledge is not in all; rather, some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat as idol-sacrifice, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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

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

¹⁰For if anyone sees you, the one who has knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be built up to eat the things sacrificed to idols?

¹¹For the one who is weak is being destroyed by your knowledge — the brother for whom Christ died.

¹²And thus, sinning against the brothers and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

¹³Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat ever again, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.