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?

What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.

And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols.

Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Therefore I judge that we must not cause trouble for those who are turning to God from [among] the Gentiles;

but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and [from] blood.

that you abstain from meat offered to idols, and from blood, and from [anything] strangled, and from fornication; from which keeping yourselves back, you will do well. Farewell.

But concerning the Gentiles having believed, we wrote, having judged that they should keep no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, and [from anything] strangled, and from fornication."

But I have a few things against you, because you have there [some] who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, both to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

But I have [this] against you, that you tolerate your wife Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit fornication and eat things sacrificed to idols.

And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.

Therefore concerning the eating of the things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

However, this knowledge is not in all [people]; rather some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as [something] offered to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for the sake of whom Christ died?

that in everything you were enriched by Him in all utterance and all knowledge,

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are despised!

And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Brothers, do not be children in your understanding; rather, in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

Awake to righteousness, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except to him considering anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Do you have faith? By yourself, have it before God. Blessed is he that does not condemn himself in what he approves.

Let no one rule against you, desiring [to do so] in [false] humility and in worship of the angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, in vain being puffed up by his carnal mind,

Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather grieved, so that he who did this deed would be removed from your midst.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch?

Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not puffed up;

Woe [to them] that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

for your trusting in wickedness; for you said, I am, and there is not another; know therefore the understanding of these things and your harlotry shall be your shame; for you said in your heart, I am, and there is not another.

For I do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Be of the same mind toward one another. Not minding the high things, but associating with the humble. Do not become wise in your own opinion.

Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God [has] received him.

But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become [as] sounding brass or a clashing cymbal.

And though I give away all my possessions to feed [the poor], and though I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

does not behave disgracefully, does not seek its own, is not provoked to anger, thinks no evil;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Now we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away the things of the child.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the working of the measure of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the edification of itself in love.