8:1  Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.

8:2  If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;

8:3  but if anyone loves God, God knows him.

8:4  Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that we don't recognize any such thing as an idol in the world, and that we have only one God.

8:5   For even if people have so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed people have many gods and many lords,

8:6  yet for us we have but one God, the Father, from whom come all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom come all things, and we exist through Him.

8:7  However not all men have this knowledge; but some, having become accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if we had sacrificed to an idol; and their weak conscience becomes defiled.

8:8   But food will not commend us to God; we do not make ourselves neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.

8:9   But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

8:10   For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he has weakness, have the boldness to eat things sacrificed to idols?

8:11  For through your knowledge he who has a weakness becomes ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

8:12   And so, by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it has weakness, you sin against Christ.

8:13   Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.