New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)
1 Corinthians
The First to the Corinthians, 8
1 Now concerning foods offered to idols:*1 we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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2 If anyone thinks he has acquired knowledge of something, he does not yet know [it] just as he ought to know [it].
3 But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him.
4 Now concerning the eating of foods offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world,*1 and that there is no God but one.
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5 For even though there are those who are called “gods,” whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,”
6 there is actually to us one God*1 the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and we through him.
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7 Nevertheless, there is not this knowledge in all persons; but some, being accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as something sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 But food will not commend us to God; if we do not eat, we do not fall short, and, if we eat, we have no credit to ourselves.
9 But keep watching that this authority of YOURS does not somehow become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
10 For if anyone should see you, the one having knowledge, reclining at a meal in an idol temple,*1 will not the conscience of that one who is weak be built up to the point of eating foods offered to idols?
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11 Really, by your knowledge, the man that is weak is being ruined, [your] brother for whose sake Christ died.
12 But when YOU people thus sin against YOUR brothers and wound their conscience that is weak, YOU are sinning against Christ.
13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat flesh at all, that I may not make my brother stumble.