1 Corinthians 10:28
Good News Translation
But if someone tells you, "This food was offered to idols," then do not eat that food, for the sake of the one who told you and for conscience' sake--

New Revised Standard Version
But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—

New American Bible
But if someone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice,” do not eat it on account of the one who called attention to it and on account of conscience;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience' sake.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience' sake.

eat.

1 Corinthians 8:10-13 For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols? . . .

Romans 14:15 For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

for.

1 Corinthians 10:26 The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.

Exodus 9:29 Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's:

Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein.

Psalm 24:1 On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein.

Psalm 115:16 The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men.

Jeremiah 27:5,6 I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes. . . .

Matthew 6:31,32 Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? . . .

Context
All to God's Glory
27If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing to go: eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake. 28But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols: do not eat of it, for his sake that told it and for conscience' sake. 29Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 8:7
But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present, with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol: and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:9
But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8:10
For if a man see him that hath knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?

1 Corinthians 10:27
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