The First to the Corinthians, 8

¹ Now concerning food offered to idols: We know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

² If anyone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know it as he should know it.

³ But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him.

⁴ Now concerning the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

⁵ For even though there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,”

⁶ there is actually to us one God, the Father, from whom all things are and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and we through him.

⁷ However, not all have this knowledge. But some, because of their former association with the idol, eat food as something sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

⁸ But food will not bring us nearer to God; we are no worse off if we do not eat, nor better off if we eat.

⁹ But keep watching that your right to choose does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

¹⁰ For if anyone should see you who have knowledge having a meal in an idol temple, will not the conscience of that one who is weak be emboldened to the point of eating food offered to idols?

¹¹ So by your knowledge the man who is weak is being ruined, your brother for whose sake Christ died.

¹² When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.

¹³ That is why if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat at all, so that I will not make my brother stumble.