¹¹ Thus through your knowledge, the weak person is brought to destruction, the brother for whom Christ died.^{(A) 12} When you sin in this way against your brothers and wound their consciences, weak as they are, you are sinning against Christ. ^13 [a](B)Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause my brother to sin.

²⁸ But if someone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice,” do not eat it on account of the one who called attention to it and on account of conscience; ²⁹ I mean not your own conscience, but the other’s. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

¹⁵ To the clean all things are clean, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean; in fact, both their minds and their consciences are tainted.^(A)