18. Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
19. Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20. No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.
21. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
22. Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23. “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.
24. No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
25. Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
26. for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
27. If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience.