⁷ but not in all men `is' the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat `it', and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

¹⁴ I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing `is' unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean -- to that one `it is' unclean;

⁹ but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

¹⁰ for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

²⁸ 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 and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why `is it' that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

²² Thou hast faith! to thyself have `it' before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

²³ and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because `it is' not of faith; and all that `is' not of faith is sin.

¹⁰ And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

¹¹ for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;