1 Corinthians 8:1-13

As part of the sacrificial victims went to the market, it was liable to be served to Christians at the tables of their heathen friends; and as festive entertainments were often held in the idol temples, as being the most spacious as well as most public places of meeting, this would inevitably raise the question, Should Christians go where such food might be presented to them? The more liberal Christians regarding an idol as no god at all, and all wholesome food allowable to Christians would say, Why not? Good, replies the apostle, but if by your participation in such cases the conscience of a weak brother is hurt and his soul endangered, you are not to exercise that liberty, and if you do, you sin, On the abstract question, whether such entertainments ought to be countenanced by Christians, the apostle does not here enter reserving that point for chapter 10.