1 Corinthians 8
1 Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.
Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 If any one thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know it:
If any man presumes to know anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 but if any one loves God, he is taught by him).
But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.
4 With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
5 For though there are those which are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods, and many lords, )
For also since there are things called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth, as there are many gods and many lords,
6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
7 But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.
Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.
8 But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.
But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.
9 But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.
But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.
10 For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?
For if some man sees thee, who has knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
11 and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge?
And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died.
12 But if you sin in this way against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
And sinning this way against the brothers, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
