¹⁹ So then let us ^(A)pursue what makes for peace and for ^(B)mutual upbuilding.

^20 (C)Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. ^(D)Everything is indeed clean, but ^(E)it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. ^21 (F)It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.^[a]

⁷ However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, ^(A)through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and ^(B)their conscience, being weak, is defiled. ^8 (C)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 ^(D)that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block ^(E)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 ^(F)destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. ¹² Thus, sinning against your brothers^[c] and ^(G)wounding their conscience when it is weak, ^(H)you sin against Christ. ¹³ Therefore, ^(I)if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.