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8 Now concerning food offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 [[But]][fn] If anyone thinks they know something, he {does not yet know}[fn] as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves [God],[fn] this one is known [by him].[fn]
4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no [[other]][fn] God but one. 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many gods and many lords), 6 [but][fn] for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.[fn]
7 But not all men have this knowledge. Some, still accustomed to idols, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 But food will not bring us closer to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
9 Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, who have this knowledge, eating in an idol's temple, won't that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? 11 For the one who is weak is destroyed by your knowledge, the brother for whom Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience [when it is weak],[fn] you sin against Christ.
13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.
8:2, But: Some manuscripts include. D(05) BYZ TR
8:2, does not yet know: Later manuscripts “has not yet known anything.” BYZ TR
8:3, God: Absent from some manuscripts. 𝔓46
8:3, by him: Absent from some manuscripts. 𝔓46 ℵ(01)
8:4, other: Later manuscripts add. BYZ TR
8:6, but: Absent from some manuscripts. 𝔓46 B(03)
8:6, A 12th century manuscripts (630) adds: “And one Holy Spirit, in whom are all things and we in him.”
8:12, when it is weak: Absent from 𝔓46