1 Corinthians 8:4
8:4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”
1 Corinthians 8:7-13
8:7 But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.
8:8 Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.
8:9 But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.
8:10 For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience be “strengthened” to eat food offered to idols?
8:11 So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.
8:12 If you sin against your brothers or sisters 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 to sin.
1 Corinthians 9:12
9:12 If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving?
But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:24-33
10:24 Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.
10:25 Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
10:26 for
the earth and its abundance are the Lord’s.
10:27 If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.
10:28 But if someone says to you, “This is from a sacrifice,” do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience
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10:29 I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?
10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food
that I give thanks for?
10:31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
10:32 Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,
10:33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit
of many, so that they may be saved.
Romans 14:15-23
14:15 For if your brother or sister
is distressed because of what you eat,
you are no longer walking in love.
Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.
14:16 Therefore do not let what you consider good
be spoken of as evil.
14:17 For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
14:18 For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.
14:19 So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.
14:20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.
14:21 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
14:22 The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.
14:23 But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.
Romans 14:2
14:2 One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.
Romans 3:9
The Condemnation of the World
3:9 What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,