Nowconcerningthings sacrificed to idols,we knowthat we allhaveknowledge.Knowledgemakes arrogant,but loveedifies.
"You feltsecurein your wickednessand said,Nooneseesme,' Your wisdomand your knowledge,they have deludedyou; For you have saidin your heart,I am, and thereis noonebesidesme.'
Woeto those whoare wisein their own eyesAnd cleverin their own sight!
For they invitedthe peopleto the sacrificesof their gods,and the peopleateand boweddownto their gods.
"Nowthereforewhydo you putGodto the testby placingupon the neckof the disciplesa yokewhichneitherour fathersnorwe have been ableto bear?
that you abstainfrom things sacrificed to idolsand from bloodand from things strangledand from fornication;if you keepyourselvesfreefrom suchthings,you will dowell.Farewell."
"But concerningthe Gentileswho have believed,we wrote,having decidedthat they should abstainfrom meatsacrificed to idolsand from bloodand from what is strangledand from fornication."
For I do not wantyou, brethren,to be uninformedof thismystery--sothat you will not be wisein your own estimation--that a partialhardeninghas happenedto Israeluntilthe fullnessof the Gentileshas comein;
Be of the samemindtowardone another;do not be haughtyin mind,but associatewith the lowly.Do not be wisein your own estimation.
But you, whydo you judgeyour brother?Oryou again,whydo you regardyour brotherwith contempt?For we will allstand beforethe judgment seatof God.
I knowand am convincedin the LordJesusthat nothingis uncleanin itself;but to him who thinksanythingto be unclean,to him it is unclean.
So thenwe pursuethe things which make for peaceand the buildingup of one another.
The faithwhichyou have,haveas your own convictionbeforeGod.Happyis he who does not condemnhimselfin whathe approves.
The onewho eatsis not to regard with contemptthe onewho does not eat,and the onewho does not eatis not to judgethe onewho eats,for Godhas acceptedhim.
And concerningyou, my brethren,I myselfalsoam convincedthat you yourselvesare fullof goodness,filledwith allknowledgeand ablealsoto admonishone another.
that in everythingyou were enrichedin Him, in allspeechand allknowledge,
I speakas to wise men;you judgewhatI say.
But ifanyonesaysto you, "Thisis meat sacrificed to idols,"do not eat[it], for the sakeof the onewho informed[you], and for conscience'sake;
Brethren,do not be childrenin your thinking;yetin evilbe infants,but in your thinkingbe mature.
Become sober-mindedas you ought,and stopsinning;for somehaveno knowledgeof God.I speak[this] to your shame.
We are foolsfor Christ'ssake,but you are prudentin Christ;we are weak,but you are strong;you are distinguished,but we are without honor.
Nowsomehave become arrogant,as thoughI were not comingto you.
Nowthese things,brethren,I have figuratively appliedto myselfand Apollosfor your sakes,sothat in us you may learnnot to exceedwhatis written,sothat nooneof you will become arrogantin behalfof oneagainstthe other.
You have become arrogantand have not mournedinstead,sothat the one who had donethisdeedwould be removedfrom your midst.
Your boastingis not good.Do you not knowthat a littleleavenleavensthe wholelump[of dough]?
Ifanyonesupposesthat he knowsanything,he has not yetknownas he oughtto know;
Thereforeconcerningthe eatingof things sacrificed to idols,we knowthat there is nosuch thingas an idolin the world,and that there is noGodbut one.
Howevernot all menhave thisknowledge;but some,being accustomedto the idoluntilnow,eat[food] as ifit were sacrificed to an idol;and their consciencebeingweakis defiled.
from whomthe wholebody,being fittedand held togetherby whateveryjointsupplies,accordingto the properworkingof eachindividualpart,causesthe growthof the bodyfor the buildingup of itselfin love.
Let no onekeep defrauding you of your prizeby delightingin self-abasementand the worshipof the angels,taking his standon [visions] he has seen,inflatedwithout causeby his fleshlymind,
But I havea few thingsagainstyou, becauseyou havetheresome who holdthe teachingof Balaam,whokept teachingBalakto puta stumbling blockbeforethe sonsof Israel,to eatthings sacrificed to idolsand to commit [acts of] immorality.
But I have[this] againstyou, that you toleratethe womanJezebel,who callsherselfa prophetess,and she teachesand leadsMy bond-servantsastrayso that they commit [acts of] immoralityand eatthings sacrificed to idols.
