1 Corinthians 8
1 But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, 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 think he knows anything, 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 love God, he is known of him):
but if any one loves God he is known of him.
4 — concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save 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 and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many, )
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, of whom 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 knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; 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 does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.
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 see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak.
10 For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?
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 the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
For the weak one is destroyed by your knowledge, the brother for whom Christ died.
12 Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
And you, sinning so against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, are sinning against Christ.
