23 “Everything is permitted”—but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permitted”—but not everything builds up.
24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, without raising questions of conscience.
26 For “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.”
27 If an unbeliever invites you over and you want to go, eat whatever is set before you, without raising questions of conscience.
28 But if anyone says to you, “This is from an idol sacrifice,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—
29 not your own conscience, I mean, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?