1 Corinthians 8
1But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].
3But if any one love
4— concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other
5For and if indeed there are [those] called
6yet to us [there is] one
7But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8But meat does not commend us to
9But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
10For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?
11and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
12Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
13Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.