For if anyone should see you who has knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened so that they eat foods offered to idols?

But when you thus sin against the brothers, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

But if your brother is grieved on account of your food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food the one on behalf of whom Christ died.

for "The earth is the LORD's, and all its fullness."

And Moses said to him, When I have departed from the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord, and the thundering shall cease, and the hail and the rain shall be no longer, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord's.

Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth and all things that are in it.

A Psalm of David on the first day of the week. The earth is the Lord's and all its fullness; the world, and all that dwell in it.

The heaven of heavens [belongs] to the Lord; but He has given the earth to the sons of men.

I have made the earth by My great power, and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it shall seem [good] in My eyes.

I have given the earth to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labor for him.

Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we put on?'

"For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.