Worsley(i)
18 Consider Israel according to the flesh, Are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?
19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that what is sacrificed to an idol is in itself any thing to stumble at?
20 No: but this I say, that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.
21 And I would not have you partakers with demons. Ye cannot drink of the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?
23 If all things be lawful for me, yet all things are not expedient: all things may be lawful for me, but all things do not edify.
24 Let no one seek his own only, but every one another's benefit.
25 Eat then whatever is sold in the shambles, asking no questions for conscience sake:
26 for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
27 and if any of the unbelievers invite you to an entertainment, and ye have a mind to go, whatever is set before you, eat, asking no questions for conscience-sake.
28 But if any one say to you, This hath been sacrificed to an idol,---eat it not; for his sake who informed thee, and for conscience-sake: for, as I said, the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, so that thou mayst have food enough without it.
29 Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's; for why is my liberty to be judged by another man's conscience?
30 And if I partake with thankfulness, why am I blamed for that, for which I give thanks?
31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
32 Behave inoffensively both to the Jews, and to the Greeks, and to the church of God.
33 Even as I also endeavour to please all men in all things, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.