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1Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.[#Acts 15.20; Rom 14.3, 10; 15.14]
2Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge,[#1 Cor 3.18; 13.8, 9, 12; 1 Tim 6.4]
3but anyone who loves God is known by him.[#Rom 8.29; Gal 4.9]
4Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”[#Deut 6.4; 1 Cor 10.19; Eph 4.6]
5Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many gods and many lords—
6yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.[#Mal 2.10; Rom 11.36; Phil 2.11]
7It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.[#Rom 14.14; 1 Cor 10.28]
8“Food will not bring us close to God.” We are no worse off if we do not eat and no better off if we do.[#Rom 14.17; #8.8 The quotation may extend to the end of the verse]
9But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.[#Rom 14.1, 13, 20; Gal 5.13]
10For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols?
11So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister for whom Christ died is destroyed.[#Rom 14.15, 20]
12But when you thus sin against brothers and sisters and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
13Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never again eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall.[#Rom 14.21; 2 Cor 11.29]