Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.
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8But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
9But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.
10For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?
11And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death.
12And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.
13For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.
1Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.
2If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;
3But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.
4So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
5For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,
6There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.
27If a Gentile makes a feast for you, and you are pleased to go as a guest, take whatever is put before you, without question of right or wrong.
28But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:
29Right and wrong, I say, not for you, but for the other man; for the fact that I am free is not dependent on another man's sense of right or wrong.
20Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.
21It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
22The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.
23But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
1Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.
2One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.
3Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.
13Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.
14I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.
15And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.
25Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;
15To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.
18See Israel after the flesh: do not those who take as food the offerings of the altar take a part in the altar?
19Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?
7Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.
5This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.
6He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.
8But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:
18And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,
19Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.
34Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
5Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;
2You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.
15Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;
16Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?
17If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.
25But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.
20But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.
10We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.
11And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
12I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.
13Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
2For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
3Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
29To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.