1. Now I will write about meat that is sacrificed to idols. We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs you up with pride, but love builds up.
2. If you think you know something, you do not yet know anything as you should.
3. But if any person loves God, that person is known by God.
4. So this is what I say about eating meat sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is really nothing in the world, and we know there is only one God.
5. Even though there are things called gods, in heaven or on earth (and there are many “gods” and “lords”),
6. for us there is only one God—our Father. All things came from him, and we live for him. And there is only one Lord—Jesus Christ. All things were made through him, and we also were made through him.
7. But not all people know this. Some people are still so used to idols that when they eat meat, they still think of it as being sacrificed to an idol. Because their conscience is weak, when they eat it, they feel guilty.
8. But food will not bring us closer to God. Refusing to eat does not make us less pleasing to God, and eating does not make us better in God’s sight.