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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. |
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