1 Corinthians 8:1-7

1With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

3But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

4With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”

5If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

6yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.

7But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.