"By your lies you discourage good people, whom I do not wish to hurt. You prevent evil people from giving up evil and saving their lives.

And in this way you will be sinning against Christ by sinning against other Christians and wounding their weak conscience.

If you love others, you will never do them wrong; to love, then, is to obey the whole Law.

Instead, we should all please other believers for their own good, in order to build them up in the faith.

Now, concerning what you wrote about food offered to idols. It is true, of course, that "all of us have knowledge," as they say. Such knowledge, however, puffs a person up with pride; but love builds up.

I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.

Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;

love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs;

As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.

I urge you, then, to make me completely happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and being one in soul and mind.

And look out for one another's interests, not just for your own.

And so this weak person, your brother for whom Christ died, will perish because of your "knowledge"!

False prophets appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way false teachers will appear among you. They will bring in destructive, untrue doctrines, and will deny the Master who redeemed them, and so they will bring upon themselves sudden destruction.

And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.