It matters very little to me that you or any human court should cross-question me on this point. I do not even cross-question myself;

Now about the questions in your letter. It is an excellent thing for a man to have no intercourse with a woman;

Eat any food that has been sold in the market, instead of letting scruples of conscience oblige you to ask any questions about it;

When an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you agree to go, eat whatever is put before you, instead of letting scruples of conscience induce you to ask any questions about it.

But if someone tells you, 'This was sacrificial meat,' then do not eat it; you must consider the man who told you, and also take conscience into account ??29 his conscience, I mean, not your own; for why should one's own freedom be called in question by someone else's conscience?

for, although I am not conscious of having anything against me, that does not clear me. It is the Lord who cross-questions me on the matter.