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1 Corinthians 10 23-1 Corinthians 10 33
“ Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial.“ Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, without raising questions for the sake of conscience,since the earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it.If any of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions for the sake of conscience.But if someone says to you,“ This is food from a sacrifice,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience.I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience?If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I criticized because of something for which I give thanks?So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.Give no offense to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,just as I also try to please everyone in everything, not seeking my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
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1 Corinthians 9 27
Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
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Romans 14:14-23
I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.For if your brother or sister is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy, by what you eat, someone for whom Christ died.Therefore, do not let your good be slandered,for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and receives human approval.So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make someone fall by what he eats.It is a good thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.Whatever you believe about these things, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin.
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1 Corinthians 8 7-1 Corinthians 8 13
However, not everyone has this knowledge. Some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food sacrificed to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.Food will not bring us close to God. We are not worse off if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged to eat food offered to idols?So the weak person, the brother or sister for whom Christ died, is ruined by your knowledge.Now when you sin like this against brothers and sisters and wound their weak conscience, you are sinning against Christ.Therefore, if food causes my brother or sister to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won’t cause my brother or sister to fall.
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2 Thessalonians 3 9
It is not that we don’t have the right to support, but we did it to make ourselves an example to you so that you would imitate us.
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Hebrews 12:15-16
Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and defiling many.And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for a single meal.
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1 Corinthians 8 4
About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that“ an idol is nothing in the world,” and that“ there is no God but one.”
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Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold as a slave under sin.
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Jude 1:12
These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn— fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.
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1 Corinthians 9 12
If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right; instead, we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
