^8 (A)Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. ⁹ But take care ^(B)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block ^(C)to the weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating^[a] in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged,^[b] if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? ¹¹ And so by your knowledge this weak person is ^(D)destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. ¹² Thus, sinning against your brothers^[c] and ^(E)wounding their conscience when it is weak, ^(F)you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, ^(G)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

²⁷ If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, ^(A)eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. ²⁸ But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience— ²⁹ I do not mean ^(B)your conscience, but his. For ^(C)why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? ³⁰ If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that ^(D)for which I give thanks?

³¹ So, whether you eat or drink, or ^(E)whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. ^32 (F)Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to ^(G)the church of God, ³³ just as ^(H)I try to please everyone in everything I do, ^(I)not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.