Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 8
{8:1} Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all
have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. {8:2} But if
anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought
to know. {8:3} But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
{8:4} Therefore 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. {8:5} For though there are things that are called
"gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods"
and many "lords"; {8:6} yet to us there is one God, the Father, of
whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Yeshua the Messiah,
through whom are all things, and we live through him. {8:7} However,
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. {8:8} But 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. {8:9} But be careful that by no means does
this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. {8:10} For
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? {8:11} And through your knowledge, he who is weak
perishes, the brother for whose sake Messiah died. {8:12} Thus,
sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is
weak, you sin against Messiah. {8:13} Therefore if food causes my
brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause
my brother to stumble.
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