If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

We are coworkers belonging to God. ¹  You are God’s field, God’s building.

Do you not know that you are God’s temple ¹  and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” ¹ 

Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

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.