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For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be "strengthened" to eat food offered to idols?

So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

If I am not an apostle to others, at least I am to you, for you are the confirming sign of my apostleship in the Lord.

For it is written in the law of Moses, " Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain ." God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than—no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share the one bread.

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord's.

I do not mean yours but the other person's. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food that I give thanks for?

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.