1 Corinthians 8
1 But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
Now concerning the things offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth;
2 If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].
if any one think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know;
3 But if any one love God, he is known of him):
but if any one love God, the same is known by 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.
Concerning the eating of the things offered in sacrifice to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but 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 though there are those that are called gods, whether in heaven or on 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.
yet to us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we to him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through 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 in all men this knowledge; for some, with a conscience directed toward the idol even now, eat of it as a thing offered in sacrifice to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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 food will not recommend us to God; if we do not eat, we are not the worse; nor if we do eat, are we the better.
9 But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block 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 see thee, who hast knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened to eat the things offered to idols?
11 and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, —the brother for whom Christ died!
12 Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
But when ye so sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
