²⁰ but that we write to them that they abstain from ^[a](A)things contaminated by idols, from ^(B)acts of sexual immorality, from ^(C)what has been ^[b]strangled, and from blood.

Take Care with Your Liberty

8 Now concerning ^(A)food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have ^(B)knowledge. Knowledge ^[a](C)makes one conceited, but love ^(D)edifies people.

⁷ However, not all people ^(A)have this knowledge; but ^(B)some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

¹⁰ For if someone sees you, the one who has ^(A)knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will his conscience, if he is weak, not be strengthened to eat ^(B)things sacrificed to idols?