But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak. 10 For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, because it[a] is weak, be strengthened so that he eats the food sacrificed to idols? 11 For the one who is weak—the brother for whom Christ died—is destroyed by your knowledge. 12 Now if you[b] sin in this way against the brothers and wound their conscience, which is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat forever[c], in order that I may not cause my brother to sin.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 8:10 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“is”) which is understood as causal
  2. 1 Corinthians 8:12 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“sin”) which is understood as conditional
  3. 1 Corinthians 8:13 Literally “for the age”