18. Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
19. So what am I saying? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything?
20. No, I mean that what they sacrifice, [they sacrifice] to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons.
21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
22. Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he?
23. “Everything is lawful,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful,” but not everything builds up.
24. No one should seek his own advantage, but that of his neighbor.
25. Eat anything sold in the market, without raising questions on grounds of conscience,
26. for “the earth and its fullness are the Lord’s.”
27. If an unbeliever invites you and you want to go, eat whatever is placed before you, without raising questions on grounds of conscience.
28. But if someone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice,” do not eat it on account of the one who called attention to it and on account of conscience;
29. I mean not your own conscience, but the other’s. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?
30. If I partake thankfully, why am I reviled for that over which I give thanks?
31. So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
32. Avoid giving offense, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God,
33. just as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own benefit but that of the many, that they may be saved.