and in the table of demons.
010:022 Or are we actually arousing the Lord to jealousy.
Are we stronger than He is?
010:023 Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable.
Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up.
010:024 Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek
that of his fellow man.
010:025 Anything that is for sale in the meat market, eat, and ask
no questions for conscience' sake;
010:026 for the earth is the Lord's, and all that it contains.
010:027 If an unbeliever gives you an invitation and you are disposed
to accept it, eat whatever is put before you, and ask no
questions for conscience' sake.
010:028 But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice;"
abstain from eating it--out of respect for him who warned you,
and, as before, for conscience' sake.
010:029 But now I mean his conscience, not your own. "Why, on what ground,"
you may object, "is the question of my liberty of action
to be decided by a conscience not my own?
010:030 If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart,
why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for
which I give thanks?"
010:031 Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you
are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.
010:032 Do not be causes of stumbling either to Jews or to Gentiles,
nor to the Church of God.
010:033 That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval
of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many,
in the hope that they may be saved.
011:001 Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ.