MODERN LITERAL VERSION

8:1 Now concerning idol-sacrifices: we know that all have knowledge. Knowledge is arrogant, but love* builds up.
8:2 But if anyone thinks to have known anything, he has known nothing yet like he ought to know;
8:3 but if anyone loves* God, this one is known by him.
8:4 Therefore concerning the food of idol-sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no other God except one.
8:5 For* if indeed* there are so called gods, if in heaven or upon the earth; as there are many such gods and many such lords,
8:6 but to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we are *for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through him.
8:7 But that knowledge is not in all people, but some until now, with the consciousness of the idol, eat it like an idol-sacrifice, and their conscience is defiled, being weak.
8:8 But food does not present us to God; for* neither, if we eat, do we abound? Nor, if we do not eat, are we lacking?

8:9 But beware lest this liberty of yours* might become a stumbling block to the weak.
8:10 For* if anyone sees you, (you who has knowledge), reclining at a table in an idol's sanctuary, will not his conscience, being weak, be built up, *that* he might eat idol-sacrifices?
8:11 And the weak brother will perish on the basis of your knowledge, but Christ died because of him.
8:12 Now thus by sinning directly at the brethren and beating their conscience when it is weak, you* are sinning directly at Christ.
8:13 Hence, if food is offending my brother, I should never* eat that meat forever, that* I may not offend my brother.