Food Sacrificed to Idols

1 Corinthians 8

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. But if anyone thinks that they knows anything, they doesn’t yet know as they ought to know. But anyone who loves God is known by him.

So then, about eating things sacrificed to idols: we know that, “An idol is nothing in the world,” and that, “There is no God but one.” For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”) yet to 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 we live through him.

However, not everyone has this knowledge. But some people, being accustomed to an idol until now, eat as if it were sacrificed to an idol, and because their conscience is weak, it is defiled. But food does not commend us to God. For we are no worse if we do not eat, nor are we better if we do eat. But y’all must be careful that y’all’s liberty doesn’t become a stumbling block to the weak. For if someone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t their weak conscience, be emboldened to eat food sacrificed to idols? So through your knowledge, the weak sibling, for whom Christ died, perishes. When y’all sin against them in this manner, wounding their conscience when it is weak, y’all sin against Christ. Therefore, if food causes my sibling to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I don’t cause them to stumble.