1 Be Sensitive to Conscience Now Acts 15:20;1 Cor. 8:4, 7, 10 concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have Rom. 14:14 knowledge. Rom. 14:3 Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2 And (1 Cor. 13:8–12); Gal. 6:3; (1 Tim. 6:4) if 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 Is. 41:24 an idol is nothing in the world, Deut. 4:35, 39; 6:4;1 Cor. 8:6 and that there is no other God but one.
5 For even if there are (John 10:34) so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),
6 yet Mal. 2:10; Eph. 4:6 for us there is one God, the Father, Acts 17:28 of whom are all things, and we for Him; and John 13:13;1 Cor. 1:2; Eph. 4:5; (1 Tim. 2:5) one Lord Jesus Christ, John 1:3; (Col. 1:16, 17); Heb. 1:2 through whom are all things, and Rom. 5:11; Rev. 4:11; 5:9, 10 through whom we live.
7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, (1 Cor. 10:28) with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is Rom. 14:14, 22 defiled.
8 But (Rom. 14:17) food 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 Gal. 5:13 beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become Rom. 14:13, 21;1 Cor. 10:28 a stumbling block to those who are weak.
10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not 1 Cor. 10:28 the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?
11 And Rom. 14:15, 20 because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
12 But Matt. 25:40 when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, Rom. 14:21;1 Cor. 10:32;2 Cor. 6:3; 11:29 if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.