I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol in this world is nothing," and that "there is no God but one."

But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be "strengthened" to eat food offered to idols?

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

Don't you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

and all ate the same spiritual food,

Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for the food that I give thanks for?

If the foot says, "Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body," it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you," nor in turn can the head say to the foot, "I do not need you."

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

For he has put everything in subjection under his feet. But when it says "everything" has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.