1. With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2. If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.
3. But if someone loves God, he is known by God.
4. With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”
5. If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),