For my part, though I have been absent from you in person, I have been present with you in spirit, and so as really present, by the authority of our Lord Jesus, I have already passed judgment upon the man who has done this --

(46:21) Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, the future -- they all belong to you.

Now this is my opinion in the light of the present distress: That it is a good thing for a man to remain as he is.

But it is not in all of you that such knowledge is found. Some, because of their past habits with idols, even down to the present moment, still eat such food as was really sacrificed to an idol, and so their consciences, because they are overscrupulous, are contaminated.