All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be enslaved under the power of any.

But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

Do not bring to naught the work of God on account of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man whose eating causes a stumbling block.

Now concerning sacrifices to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for building up and exhortation and comfort.

I wish you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive building up.

Therefore let us pursue the things of peace and the things that build up one another.

We then who are strong ought to bear with the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to building up.

Again, do you think that we defend ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ. But we do all things, beloved, for your edification.

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for the business of building up, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

Therefore encourage each other and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.