## Take Care with Your Liberty 

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Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 

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If anyone thinks that he has known anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know; 

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but if anyone loves God, he has been known by Him. 

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Therefore, concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one. 

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For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords, 

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yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we _exist_ for Him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we _exist_ through Him. 

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However, not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat _food_ as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 

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But food will not commend us to God. We neither lack if we do not eat, nor abound if we do eat. 

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But see _to it_ that this authority of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 

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For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be built up to eat things sacrificed to idols? 

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For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 

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And in that way, by sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 

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Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again--ever, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.