7 Not everyone knows these things. In fact, many people have grown up with the belief that idols have life in them. So when they eat meat offered to idols, they are bothered by a weak conscience.
8 But food doesn't bring us any closer to God. We are no worse off if we don't eat, and we are no better off if we do.
9 Don't cause problems for someone with a weak conscience, just because you have the right to eat anything.
10 You know all this, and so it doesn't bother you to eat in the temple of an idol. But suppose a person with a weak conscience sees you and decides to eat food that has been offered to idols.
11 Then what you know has destroyed someone Christ died for.
12 When you sin by hurting a follower with a weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
13 So if I hurt one of the Lord's followers by what I eat, I will never eat meat as long as I live.