Old/New Testament

¹⁹ Therefore what am I saying? That^[a] food-sacrificed-to-an-idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? ²⁰ On the contrary, that the things which they are sacrificing, they are sacrificing to demons, and not^[b] to God. And I do not want you to be sharers of the demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the Lord’s cup and the demons’ cup. You cannot^[c] partake of the Lord’s table and the demons’ table. ²² Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

So As To The Eating of Meat, Do What Is Beneficial And Edifying To Those Eating

²³ All things are lawful, but not all things are beneficial. All things are lawful, but not all things build-up. ²⁴ Let no one be seeking his own thing, but the thing of the other. ²⁵ Be eating anything being sold in the meat-market, examining nothing for the sake of conscience. ²⁶ For “The earth and the fullness of it are the Lord’s” [Ps 24:1]. ²⁷ If one of the unbelievers invites you, and you want to go, eat anything being set-before you, examining nothing for the sake of conscience. ²⁸ But if one should say to you “This is offered-in-sacrifice”, do not eat^[d]— for the sake of that one having disclosed it, and the conscience. ²⁹ Now the conscience I mean is not the one of oneself, but the one of the other. For why^[e] is my freedom being judged^[f] by another’s conscience? ³⁰ If I am partaking with thanks, why am I being blasphemed for that which I am giving-thanks?

In Summary, Do All For God’s Glory. Be Blameless To All And Seek Their Benefit

³¹ Therefore, whether you are eating or drinking or doing anything, be doing all for the glory of God. ³² Be blameless^[g] both to Jews and Greeks, and to the church of God— ³³ just as I also am pleasing all people as to all things, not seeking the benefit of myself, but the benefit of the many, in order that they might be saved.