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3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that aan idol is nothing in the world, band that there is no other God but one.  
5 For even if there are aso-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),  
6 yet afor us there is one God, the Father, bof whom are all things, and we for Him; and cone Lord Jesus Christ, dthrough whom are all things, and ethrough whom we live.  
7 However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, awith consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is bdefiled.  
8 But afood does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.  
9 But abeware lest somehow this liberty of yours become ba stumbling block to those who are weak.  
10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not athe conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?  
11 And abecause of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?  
12 But awhen you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.  
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Now clearly in Corinth and more specifically in the church there, there were people that were both strong in the faith and weak in the faith. For some, eating meat, whether it was offered to an idol or not, was really no big deal. That filet mignon was still a filet mignon regardless of what ceremony it went through or who prayed over it, because at the end of the day, it was just meat. To others who took a stance that they did not want to have anything to do with idols, even though idols, as Paul explains here, are nothing in the world, they believe that partaking of that filet was sin. Paul, because of his love for his brethren said, if eating meat offends or causes someone to stumble, I will not do it. Paul shows that he did not want to offend any one of his brethren.

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