¹Now concerning the things sacrificed to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

²Now if anyone thinks to have known anything, not yet did he know anything even as it is necessary to know;

³however, if anyone loves God, he has been known by Him.

⁴Therefore concerning the eating of the idol-sacrifices, we know that an idol is no thing in the world and that there is no God other, except only one.

⁵Even truly if indeed there are those named gods, whether in heaven or on the earth, as there are many gods and many lords;

⁶yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all the things and we ourselves for Him, and one Lord, Jesus the Anointed One, through whom are all the things and we ourselves through Him.

⁷But this knowledge is not in all; now some, by custom until now of the idol, eat as of an idol-sacrifice, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

⁸However food will not commend us to God; for neither, if we shall not eat, do we come short, nor then, if we shall eat, have we an advantage.

⁹However be careful, lest perhaps this right of yours may become an occasion of stumbling to those weak.

¹⁰For if anyone shall see you who is having knowledge eating in an idol's temple, surely his conscience, being weak, will be encouraged to eat the idol-sacrifices?

¹¹For the one who is being weak is destroyed through your knowledge, the brother for whom the Anointed One died.

¹²Then thus sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience being weak, you sin against the Anointed One.

¹³Therefore if food snares my brother, certainly I shall not eat meat forever, so that I may not snare my brother.