Food will not bring us close to God.[a] We are not worse off if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.(A) But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block(B) to the weak. 10 For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged[b] to eat food offered to idols?

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Footnotes

  1. 8:8 Or bring us before (the judgment seat of) God
  2. 8:10 Or built up

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