8:4 concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.
8:5 For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many,)
8:6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
8:7 But knowledge is not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8:8 But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.
8:9 But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
8:10 For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?
8:11 and the weak one, the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
8:12 Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
8:13 Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.
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