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concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does yet know as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
4 Now, concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one. 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’), 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all things came and through whom we all live.
7 But not everyone has this knowledge. Some are so accustomed to idols up until now, that when they eat food offered to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 But food does not bring us near to God. We are no worse if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.
9 But be careful that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you, the one who has this knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t he be emboldened to eat food offered to idols? 11 So this weak person, the brother for whom Christ died, is destroyed because of your knowledge. 12 But when you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.