For whenever gentiles, who do not possess the Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the Law.

Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Instead, poured out in emptiness, a servant's form did he possess, a mortal man becoming. In human form he chose to be,

For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.