²⁵ But as for the Gentiles who have believed, ^(A)we have sent a letter with our judgement that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled,^[a] and from sexual immorality.”

Food Offered to Idols

8 Now concerning^{[a] (A)}food offered to idols: we know that ^(B)“all of us possess knowledge”. This “knowledge” ^(C)puffs up, ^(D)but love builds up.

⁴ Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that ^(A)“an idol has no real existence”, and that ^(B)“there is no God but one.”

⁷ However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, ^(A)through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and ^(B)their conscience, being weak, is defiled.