1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.2The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;3But the one who loves God is known by God.But anyone who loves God is known by him.But if any man love God, the same is known of him.but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.Concerning 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 even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;6yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.7But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.8But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.9Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.10For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?11So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.12By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.13Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.
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