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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that "We all possess knowledge." But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But whoever loves God is known by God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that "An idol is nothing at all in the world" and that "There is no God but one." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For even if there are so-called gods, whether 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 but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But not everyone possesses this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won't that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall. |
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