⁷ But not everyone possesses this knowledge.^(A) Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak,^(B) it is defiled.

¹⁰ For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?^{(A) 11} So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed^(B) by your knowledge. ¹² When you sin against them^(C) in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.^(D)

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