^{18 Ref} See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?

^{19 Ref} what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

^{20 Ref} `no,' but that the things that the nations sacrifice -- they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons.

^{21 Ref} Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

^{22 Ref} do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

^{23 Ref} All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

^{24 Ref} let no one seek his own -- but each another's.

^{25 Ref} Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

^{26 Ref} for the Lord's `is' the earth, and its fulness;

^{27 Ref} and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;

^{28 Ref} and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed `it', and of the conscience, for the Lord's `is' the earth and its fulness:

^{29 Ref} and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why `is it' that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

^{30 Ref} and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?

^{31 Ref} Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

^{32 Ref} become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

^{33 Ref} as I also in all things do please all, not seeking my own profit, but that of many -- that they may be saved.