Freedom and love in Christ
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📚✭✭Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 📚✭And if anyone thinks he knows something, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it. 3 📚✭But if anyone loves God, that one is known by God. 4 📚So concerning the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols: We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is but one God, and no other. 5 📚✭For though there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many called gods and lords), 6 📚✭yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
7 📚✭However everyone does not have this understanding. For some, being conscious of the idol, to this hour eat such food as something offered to an idol, and because their conscience is weak it is defiled. 8 📚✭But food does not commend us to God. For if we eat, we are not the better, or if we do not eat we are not the worse.
9 📚✭But watch out that somehow this liberty of yours does not become a stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 📚For if anyone sees you who have understanding sit at food in the temple of an idol✭, will not his weak conscience encourage him to eat those things which are offered to idols? 11 📚✭And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother, for whom Christ died, be ruined✭? 12 📚✭But when you sin against the brethren like this, and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ. 13 📚✭Therefore, if such food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I cause my brother to stumble.