1. And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;
2. and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth [him] to know;
3. and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.
4. Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;
5. for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth-- as there are gods many and lords many--
6. yet to us [is] one God, the Father, of whom [are] the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] the all things, and we through Him;
7. but not in all men [is] the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat [it], and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.