For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things 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 invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

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

Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God,

but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, from sexual perversion, from things strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual perversion. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual perversion.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to prostitute themselves to sexual immorality.

Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and lead astray My servants to prostitute themselves to sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

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

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

However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

And because of your knowledge the weak brother will perish, the one for whom Christ died.

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

We are foolish because of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are distinguished, but we are dishonored.

And if I were to have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I were to have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak to your shame.

I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.

Let no one condemn you, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, being puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be removed out from among your midst.

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

Love is longsuffering and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast itself, is not puffed up;

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and understanding in their own sight!

For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no one else besides me.

For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, that you not be wise within yourselves, that hardness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.

Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the lowly. Do not be 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 treat your brother as being of no account? For everyone shall appear before the judgment seat of Christ.

If I were to speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And if I were to bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I were to give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put an end to childish things.

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

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.