1 Corinthians 8
1 Now about food 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 love edifieth.
2 If anyone thinks he knows something, that person does not yet know as he should know.
And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 But if anyone loves God, that person is known by him.
But if any man love YHWH, the same is known of him.
4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol in this world is nothing and that there is no 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 Elohim but one.
5 For maybe so-called gods do exist, either in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords.”
For though there be that are called mighty ones, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be mighty ones many, and masters many, )
6 Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things exist, and through whom we exist.
But to us there is but one Elohim, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Master Yahushua the Messiah, by whom are all things, and we by him.
7 However, this knowledge is not in everyone. Instead, some previously practiced idol worship, and they eat this food as if it were something sacrificed to an idol. Their conscience is thereby corrupted because it is weak.
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.
8 But food will not present us to God. We are not worse if we do not eat, nor better if we do eat it.
But food commendeth us not to YHWH: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
9 But take care that your freedom does not become a reason for someone who is weak in faith to stumble.
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
10 For suppose that someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating a meal in an idol's temple. Is not his weak conscience emboldened to eat what is offered 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;
11 So because of your understanding about the true nature of idols, the weaker one, the brother for whom Christ died, is destroyed.
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom the Messiah died?
12 Thus, when you sin against your brothers and wound their weak consciences, you sin against Christ.
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against the Messiah.
