E. The Proper Eating
1. Building Up Others,
Seeking Their Advantage
1. Building Up Others,
Seeking Their Advantage
- All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable; all things are lawful, but not all things build up.
- Let no one seek his own profit, but that of the other.
- Everything sold in a meat market eat, asking no questions for conscience sake;
- For the earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof.
- If any of the unbelievers invites you and you wish to go, eat everything that is set before you, asking no question for conscience sake.
- But if anyone says to you, This has been offered in sacrifice, do not eat, for his sake who pointed it out and for conscience sake.
- Conscience, I say, not your own, but the others. For why is my freedom judged by some other conscience?
- If I partake with thankfulness, why am I spoken evil of concerning that for which I give thanks?
- Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
- Do not become a stumbling block, both to Jews and to Greeks and to the church of God;
- Even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage but that of the many, that they may be saved.
