1 Corinthians 8

Now about the things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

If anyone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

But if anyone loves God, that one is known by him. \*

So then, about the eating of the things sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol in the world {is} nothing and that {there is} no God except one.

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,”

yet for us {there is} one God the Father, from whom {are} all things and for whom we {are}, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all {things are}, and through whom we {are}. \*

However, this knowledge {is} not in everyone. Instead, some, {being} in the custom of the idols until now, eat things as sacrificed to idols, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. \*

But food will not bring us near to God; neither are we made to lack if we do not eat, nor do we abound if we eat.

But take care lest this authority of yours might become a stumbling block for the weak.

For if someone might see the one having knowledge reclining to eat in an idol’s temple, will his conscience, being weak, not be built up so as to eat the things sacrificed to idols? \*

So the one being weak, the brother for whom Christ died, is destroyed through your knowledge.

And thus sinning against your brothers and wounding their weak consciences, you sin against Christ.

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will certainly not ever eat meat, so that I might not cause my brother to stumble. \*