MNT(i)
18 Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?
19 What then shall we say? that an offering to an idol is anything? or that an idol is really anything?
20 On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers in the Lord's table and in the table of demons.
22 What! would we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23 "All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up.
24 Let not each one be always seeking his own, but rather his neighbor's good.
25 Eat anything that is for sale in the markets, asking no questions for conscience sake;
26 for the earth and its fulness are the Lord's.
27 If one who is not a believer invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat everything that is set before you, without asking questions for conscience sake.
28 But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you,
29 and for your conscience sake—his conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?
30 If I eat after giving thanks, why am I denounced for eating that for which I have given thanks?"
31 Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.