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.
But concerning things offered to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but divine 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 one seems to know anything, yet he knows not as it behooves him to know;
3 but if any one loves God, he is taught by him).
but if any one loves God he is known of 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 concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no 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 if indeed there are those who are called gods, whether in heaven or upon the earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;
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.
but there is to us one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we in 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.
But there is not knowledge in all people: but some, with the conscience of the idol even until now, eat as if it was sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience being weak is polluted.
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 meat will not commend us to God; neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we the worse.
9 But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.
See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the 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 any one may see you having knowledge sitting at the table in the idol temple, will not the conscience of him, being weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to the idols?
11 and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge?
For the weak one is destroyed by your knowledge, the brother 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 you, sinning so against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, are sinning against Christ.
