^{18 Ref} Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?

^{19 Ref} What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

^{20 Ref} But `I say', that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons.

^{21 Ref} Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

^{22 Ref} Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

^{23 Ref} All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

^{24 Ref} Let no man seek his own, but `each' his neighbor's `good'.

^{25 Ref} Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake,

^{26 Ref} for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

^{27 Ref} If one of them that believe not biddeth you `to a feast', and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.

^{28 Ref} But if any man say unto you, This hath been offered in sacrifice, eat not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake:

^{29 Ref} conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

^{30 Ref} If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

^{31 Ref} Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.