Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to stumble. — Paul's personal resolution: skandalizō (cause to stumble) his sister or brother through eating? Never. The commitment is permanent: never eat meat again. The radical self-renunciation—living as a vegetarian in perpetuity to prevent another's spiritual fall—models the love that must govern freedom. Knowledge and rights yield entirely to the imperative of building up the community.

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