The Bible

1 Corinthians Chapter 8

¹Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but selfless-love builds up. ²But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know. ³But if anyone selflessly-loves God is known by him.

⁴So concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one. ⁵For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;" ⁶yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus AnointedOne, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

⁷However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. ⁸But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. ⁹But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. ¹⁰For 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? ¹¹And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake AnointedOne died. ¹²Thus, falling-short against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you fall-short against AnointedOne. ¹³So, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will not eat meat for evermore, so that I don't cause my brother to stumble.