1 Now concerning the [things] sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. VP
2 If anyone thinks to know anything, he does not yet know as it is necessary to know. VP
3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him. VP
4 Therefore concerning the eating of the [things] sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world and that [there is] no God except one. VP
5 For even if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—just as there are many gods and many lords— VP
6 yet to 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 we through Him. VP
7 But the knowledge [is] not in all. And some, by the habit of the idol until now, eat [such] as a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak, it is defiled. VP
8 But food will not commend us to God; neither if we should eat do we fall short, nor if we should not eat do we excel. VP
9 But take care, lest somehow this authority of yours⁺ become a stumbling block to the weak. VP
10 For if anyone should see you, the [one] having knowledge, reclining in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him being weak be built up to eat the [things] sacrificed to idols? VP
11 For the [one] being weak is destroyed by your knowledge—the brother for whom Christ died. VP
12 And thus sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience—[it] being weak—you⁺ sin against Christ. VP
13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, never shall I eat meat to the age, so that I shall not cause my brother to stumble. VP