1 Corinthians 8

Be Sensitive to Conscience

Now ^aconcerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have ^bknowledge. ^cKnowledge ¹puffs up, but love ²edifies. 2 And ^aif anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that ^aan idol is nothing in the world, ^band that there is no other God but one. 5 For even if there are ^aso-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), 6 yet ^afor us there is one God, the Father, ^bof whom are all things, and we for Him; and ^cone Lord Jesus Christ, ^dthrough whom are all things, and ^ethrough whom we live.
7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, ^awith consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is ^bdefiled. 8 But ^afood does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.
9 But ^abeware lest somehow this liberty of yours become ^ba ¹stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not ^athe conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? 11 And ^abecause of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But ^awhen you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, ^aif food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

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