1Now concerning[1] food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. (徒15:29; 羅14:3; 羅15:14; 林前8:4; 林前8:7; 林前8:10; 林前13:4)2If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. (林前3:18; 林前13:8; 林前13:12; 加6:3; 提前6:3)3But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.[2] (出33:12; 出33:17; 耶1:5; 鸿1:7; 加4:9; 提后2:19)4Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” (申4:35; 申4:39; 赛41:24; 徒14:15; 林前8:6; 林前10:19)5For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— (帖后2:4)6yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. (玛2:10; 约1:3; 约13:13; 羅11:36; 林前1:2; 林前8:4; 弗4:5; 弗4:6; 西1:16; 提前2:5)7However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. (羅14:14; 羅14:22; 林前10:25; 林前10:28)8Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. (羅14:17)9But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. (羅14:1; 羅14:21; 林前10:23; 加5:13)10For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating[3] in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged,[4] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?11And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. (羅14:15; 羅14:20)12Thus, sinning against your brothers[5] and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. (亚2:8; 太18:6; 太25:45)13Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. (羅14:13; 羅14:21; 林后6:3; 林后11:29)