1 Korinčanima 8
1 U pogledu mesa žrtvovana idolima, znamo, svi posjedujemo znanje. Ali znanje nadima, a ljubav izgrađuje.
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 Ako tko misli da što zna, još ne zna kako treba znati.
But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
3 A ljubi li tko Boga, Bog ga poznaje.
But anyone who loves God is known by him.
4 Dakle, u pogledu blagovanja mesa žrtvovana idolima, znamo: nema idola na svijetu i nema Boga do Jednoga.
Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
5 Jer sve kad bi i bilo nazovibogova ili na nebu ili na zemlji - kao što ima mnogo “bogova” i mnogo “gospodara”! -
For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
6 nama je jedan Bog, Otac, od koga je sve, a mi za njega; i jedan Gospodin, Isus Krist, po kome je sve, i mi po njemu.
yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
7 Ali nemaju svi toga znanja. Neki, navikli na idole, još jedu meso kao idolima žrtvovano i njihova se savjest kalja jer je nejaka.
However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 A k Bogu nas ne privodi jelo. Niti što gubimo ako ne jedemo; niti što dobivamo ako jedemo.
But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
9 A pazite da ne bi možda ta vaša sloboda bila spoticaj nejakima.
But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 Jer vidi li tko tebe koji imaš znanje za stolom u hramu idolskomu, neće li se njegova savjest, jer je nejaka, “izgraditi” da jede žrtvovano idolima?
For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
11 I s tvoga znanja propada nejaki, brat za kojega je Krist umro.
And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
12 Tako griješeći protiv braće i ranjavajući njihovu nejaku savjest, protiv Krista griješite.
Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
