English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Corinthians Book, chapter 8, verse 37 in Web Version

1 Corinthians 8 : 1 (WEB)

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

1 Corinthians 8 : 2 (WEB)

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.

1 Corinthians 8 : 3 (WEB)

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

1 Corinthians 8 : 4 (WEB)

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.

1 Corinthians 8 : 5 (WEB)

For though there are things that are called "gods," whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many "gods" and many "lords;"

1 Corinthians 8 : 6 (WEB)

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.

1 Corinthians 8 : 7 (WEB)

However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8 : 8 (WEB)

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.

1 Corinthians 8 : 9 (WEB)

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 8 : 10 (WEB)

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?

1 Corinthians 8 : 11 (WEB)

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

1 Corinthians 8 : 12 (WEB)

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

1 Corinthians 8 : 13 (WEB)

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.