1 Corinthians 8
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Mu diambu di zimbizi zitambuku kuidi bitumba, tuzebi ti beto bosonzayilu yidi yeto. Nzayilu yinnatanga luniemo vayi luzolo tunga lueti tunga.
2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
Mutu wowo wulembo yindula ti niandi zebi, buna kasi zaba ko boso bufueti zabulu.
3 But anyone who loves God is known by him.
Vayi enati mutu wunzolanga Nzambi, buna niandi zabikini kuidi Nzambi.
4 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.
Mu diambu di mambu matedi dia zimbizi zitambuku kuidi bitumba, muaki beto tuzebi mboti ti bitumba bidi bima biphamba va ntotowawu, ayi, kuisi Nzambi yinkaka ko; Nzambi yimosi kaka yidi.
5 For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
Bila enati bawombo beti tedolo zinzambi buba mu diyilu, buba va ntoto; buna diodi dilembo monika ti zinzambi zidi ziwombo ayi bapfumu badi bawombo.
6 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.
Vayi kuidi beto tuzebi ti Nzambi yimosi kaka yidi, Tata, niandi wuvanga bima bioso ayi beto tulembo zingi mu diambu diandi. Ayi Pfumu yimosi kaka yidi, Yesu-Klisto. Bima bioso bivangulu mu niandi ayi beto tuidi mu niandi.
7 However, that knowledge is not 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.
Muaki baboso basi nzayilu ko. Vayi bankaka bu bayuku sambilanga bitumba nate buabu, beti dianga zimbizi ziozi zintambukungu kuidi bitumba. Mayindu ma mintima miawu bu madi malebakana, buna makubamonisanga ti bavodidi masumu.
8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
Luzaba mboti ti bidia bilendi kutufuanisa va meso ma Nzambi ko. Enati tukadi dia kadi kima buna tulendi kambu kima ko, enati tudidi, kadi kima tulendi baka ko va mbata.
9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
Vayi lukeba mu diambu di kiphuanza kioki kidi yeno; kibika ba ditadi dimbuminina minlebukila thutu.
10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
Bila enati mutu wumueni “ngeyo mutu widi nzayilu” buna vuendi mu nzo Nzambi yi bitumba, keti buna mayindu ma ntima wu nlebukila wowomamantuma mu dia zimbizi zitambuku kuidi bitumba?
11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
Mu diambu di nzayilu aku, khomba yoyo yilebakana, yoyi Klisto kafuila va dikulusi, makazimbala.
12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Bu lumvolanga bobo masumu kuidi bakhomba ayi bu lulembo luekanga mintima mi minlebukila, luzaba mboti ti kuidi niandi veka Klisto lulembo volanga masumu.
13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat for this age (aiōn g165), that I do not cause my brother to stumble.
Diawu enati bidia ndilenda dia bilenda buisa khombꞌama mu masumu, buna ndilendi buela bidianga ko mu diambu ndibika ba diluaku dimbuila khombꞌama mu masumu. (aiōn g165)
