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19 What am I trying to say? Am I saying that food offered to idols has some significance, or that idols are real gods?
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Do I mean then that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20 No, not at all. I am saying that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God. And I don’t want you to participate with demons.
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No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.
21 You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s Table and at the table of demons, too.
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You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
22 What? Do we dare to rouse the Lord’s jealousy? Do you think we are stronger than he is?
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Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
23 You say, “I am allowed to do anything” —but not everything is good for you. You say, “I am allowed to do anything”—but not everything is beneficial.
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“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.
24 Don’t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others.
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No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
25 So you may eat any meat that is sold in the marketplace without raising questions of conscience.
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Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,
26 For “the earth is the LORD ’s, and everything in it.”
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for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
27 If someone who isn’t a believer asks you home for dinner, accept the invitation if you want to. Eat whatever is offered to you without raising questions of conscience.
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If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience.
28 (But suppose someone tells you, “This meat was offered to an idol.” Don’t eat it, out of consideration for the conscience of the one who told you.
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But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.
29 It might not be a matter of conscience for you, but it is for the other person.) For why should my freedom be limited by what someone else thinks?
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I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?
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