Food Sacrificed to Idols
Ezekiel 14:1–11; Romans 14:13–23
1But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.+ 2If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].+ 3But if any one loveGod, he is known of him):+ 4— concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no otherGod save one.+ 5For and if indeed there are [those] calledgods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there aregods many, and lords many,)+ 6yet to us [there is] oneGod, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.+ 7But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.+ 8But meat does not commend us toGod; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.+ 9But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.+ 10For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?+ 11and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.+ 12Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.+ 13Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.+