Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 1Co 8:7Isa 5:21Rom 14:31Co 8:4Rev 2:141Co 8:2Rom 15:141Co 13:1-13 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know. 1Co 13:121Co 3:18Gal 6:3Pro 26:121Ti 6:3-41Co 13:8-91Ti 1:5-7Pro 30:2-4 But anyone who loves God is known by him. Rev 3:8-9Exo 33:17Nam 1:72Ti 2:191Co 2:9Gal 4:9Rev 2:19Jas 1:12
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one. Deu 4:39Eph 4:61Co 10:19-20Deu 6:41Ti 2:5Isa 41:241Co 8:6-7Isa 44:24 For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”— 2Th 2:4Gal 4:8Jer 2:28Deu 10:17Jer 11:13Jer 2:11Dan 5:4Jhn 10:34-35 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him. Rom 11:36Jhn 1:3Mal 2:10Heb 1:2-3Col 1:16-171Co 8:4Eph 4:5-6Act 17:28
However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 1Co 10:28-29Rom 14:141Co 8:9-10Rom 14:22-231Co 1:10-11 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better. Rom 14:17Heb 13:91Co 6:13Col 2:20-23 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. Gal 5:13Rom 14:20-211Pe 2:162Pe 2:191Co 10:24Rom 14:1-21Co 8:12Rom 14:13-15 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 1Co 10:28-291Co 10:20-211Co 8:4Rom 14:231Co 8:1-21Co 8:7Rom 14:14Amo 2:8 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. Rom 14:15Rom 15:1-31Co 8:131Co 10:33Rom 14:20-21 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Mat 18:6Mat 25:451Co 12:121Sa 19:4-51Sa 2:251Sa 24:11Act 9:4-5Exo 16:8 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble. Rom 14:212Co 11:292Co 6:31Co 6:121Co 13:51Co 9:19-231Co 10:331Co 9:12