1 Corinthians 8:9-13

If you believe it is wrong… it is wrong for you.

If you have a clear conscience... it is right for you. 

If you believe you shouldn’t eat meat on Friday during Lent…don’t.
If you believe Lent has nothing to do with eating meat on Friday.... eat meat. 
But do not do it with others who feel morally different about it than you do.

Your freedom should not influence someones beliefs. If they believe it is wrong for them it is wrong for them. 

Don’t let your liberty be a reason for another to go against what they believe.

The knowledgeable believers were correct in their view of idols, but it did not matter. If the weaker brothers and sisters saw other believers eating food offered to idols, they might also eat, in violation of their own conscience. To go against the conscience was in fact sinning. By their knowledge the stronger believers were causing the weaker believers to stumble. Paul exhorted the strong believers to show love to the weaker ones by refraining from offending them.

1 Corinthians 8:9-13

⁹ But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak. ¹⁰ For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? ¹¹ And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? ¹² But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. 

¹³ Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

¹³ For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 

Galatians 5:13

¹³ Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way. 

Romans 14:13

²¹ It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak. 

Romans 14:21

²⁸ But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake; for “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.” 

1 Corinthians 10:28

²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense. 

Romans 14:20

³² Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God, 

1 Corinthians 10:32