The Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians (WEB)
8:1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge
puffs up, but love builds up. 8:2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as
he ought to know. 8:3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him. 8:4Therefore concerning
the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that
there is no other God but one. 8:5For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the
heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;" 8:6yet to us there is one God, the
Father, of whom are all things, and we to him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all
things, and we through him. 8:7However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, being used
until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is
defiled. 8:8But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse;
nor, if we eat, are we the better. 8:9But be careful that by any means this liberty of yours doesn't
become a stumbling block to the weak. 8:10For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an
idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
8:11And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
8:12Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin
against Christ. 8:13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore,
that I don't cause my brother to stumble.