8. Food won’t bring us close to God. We’re not missing out if we don’t eat, and we don’t have any advantage if we do eat.
9. But watch out or else this freedom of yours might be a problem for those who are weak.
10. Suppose someone sees you (the person who has knowledge) eating in an idol’s temple. Won’t the person with a weak conscience be encouraged to eat the meat sacrificed to false gods?
11. The weak brother or sister for whom Christ died is destroyed by your knowledge.
12. You sin against Christ if you sin against your brothers and sisters and hurt their weak consciences this way.
13. This is why, if food causes the downfall of my brother or sister, I won’t eat meat ever again, or else I may cause my brother or sister to fall.