²⁹ I mean the other’s conscience, not your own. For why should my freedom be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience?^(A)

¹⁹ For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might gain all the more.^(A)

¹⁵ If your brother or sister is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ So do not let your good be slandered. ¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.^{(A) 18} The one who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and has human approval.^{(B) 19} Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.^{(C) 20} Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong to make someone stumble by what you eat; ²¹ it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.^[a](D)

²¹ for we are setting our minds on what is right not only before the Lord but also before the people.^(A)

³² Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,^(A)

⁹ But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.^{(A) 10} For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols? ¹¹ So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister for whom Christ died is destroyed.^{(B) 12} But when you thus sin against brothers and sisters and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, if food is a cause of their falling, I will never again eat meat, so that I may not cause one of them to fall.^(C)

²² abstain from every form of evil.