With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols-We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character.

Though I speak in the 'tongues' of men, or even of angels, yet have not Love, I have become mere echoing brass, or a clanging cymbal!

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

I entreat you to make my happiness complete--Live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit.

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And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak man is ruined-your Brother for whose sake Christ died!

But there were false prophets also in the nation, just as there will be false teachers among you, men who will secretly introduce ruinous divisions, disowning even the Lord who bought them, and bringing speedy Ruin upon themselves.

and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world besides.

General references

Let everything you do be done in a loving spirit.

For, if I rebuild the very things that I pulled down, I prove myself to have done wrong.

Let the spirit of Christ Jesus be yours also.