1 Corinthians 8:10-13

8:10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be “strengthened” ¹  to eat food offered to idols? 8:11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, ²  for whom Christ died, is destroyed. ³  8:12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters ⁴  in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 8:13 For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them ⁵  to sin.

Romans 14:15

14:15 For if your brother or sister ⁶  is distressed because of what you eat, ⁷  you are no longer walking in love. ⁸  Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

¹ tn Or “built up”; This is the same word used in v. 1b. It is used ironically here: The weak person is “built up” to commit what he regards as sin.

² tn Grk “the one who is weak…the brother for whom Christ died,” but see note on the word “Christian” in 5:11.

³ tn This may be an indirect middle, “destroys himself.”

⁴ tn See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:10.

⁵ tn Grk “my brother.” Both “my brother or sister” earlier in the verse and “one of them” here translate the same Greek phrase. Since the same expression occurs in the previous line, a pronoun phrase is substituted here to suit English style, which is less tolerant of such repetition.

⁶ tn Grk “brother.”

⁷ tn Grk “on account of food.”

⁸ tn Grk “according to love.”