1 Corinthians 8
1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
And as touching things sacrificed vnto idols, wee knowe that wee all haue knowledge: knowledge puffeth vp, but loue edifieth.
2 The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
Nowe, if any man thinke that hee knoweth any thing, hee knoweth nothing yet as hee ought to knowe.
3 But the one who loves God is known by God.
But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him.
4 So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed vnto idoles, we knowe that an idole is nothing in the worlde, and that there is none other God but one.
5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
For though there bee that are called gods, whether in heauen, or in earth (as there be many gods, and many lords)
6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
Yet vnto vs there is but one God, which is that Father, of whome are all things, and we in him: and one Lord Iesus Christ, by whome are all things, and we by him.
7 But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
But euery man hath not that knowledge: for many hauing conscience of the idole, vntill this houre, eate as a thing sacrificed vnto the idole, and so their conscience being weake, is defiled.
8 But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
But meate maketh not vs acceptable to God, for neither if we eate, haue we the more: neither if we eate not, haue we the lesse.
9 Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
But take heede lest by any meanes this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.
10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
For if any man see thee which hast knowledge, sit at table in the idoles temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weake, be boldened to eate those things which are sacrificed to idoles?
11 So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
And through thy knowledge shall the weake brother perish, for whome Christ died.
12 By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
Nowe when ye sinne so against the brethren, and wound their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christ.
