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Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat sacrificial food they think of it as having been sacrificed to a god, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">An early manuscript and another ancient witness <i>think they have knowledge do not yet know as they ought to know. <span class="fnref">3</span>But whoever loves truly knows.</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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