1 Corinthians 8:4

“Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one!

For You are great and do wondrous deeds; You alone are God.

Behold, you are nothing, And your work is non-existent; He who chooses you is an abomination.

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, proclaiming the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

“And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable crowd, saying that things made with hands are not gods.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.

However, not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be built up to eat things sacrificed to idols?

For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.

For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,