1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. 2If any man thinks that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know; 3but if any man loves God, the same is known by him. 4Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one. 5For though there are those that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are many gods, and many lords; 6yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we to him; and one Lord, Yeshua Messiah, through whom are all things, and we through him. 7However there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being accustomed until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. 8But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. 9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. 10For if a man sees you who have knowledge reclining at table in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11For through your knowledge he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Messiah died. 12And thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Messiah. 13Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh forevermore, that I may not cause my brother to stumble.