1 1Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 2If anyone thinks he knows something, that person does not yet know as he should know. 3 3But if anyone loves God, that person is known by him. 5 6 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol in this world is nothing and that there is no God but one 7 However, this knowledge is not in everyone. Instead, some previously practiced idol worship, and they eat this food as if it were something sacrificed to an idol. Their conscience is thereby defiled because it is weak. 9 10 8 But food will not present us to God. We are not worse if we do not eat, nor better if we do eat it. 11 12 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause my brother to fall.