1 Corinthians 8
1 But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
偶像の供物に就きては我等みな知識あることを知る。知識は人を誇らしめ、愛は徳を建つ。
2 If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].
もし人みづから知れりと思はば、知るべき程の事をも知らぬなり。
3 But if any one love God, he is known of him):
されど人もし神を愛せば、その人、神に知られたるなり。
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.
偶像の供物を食ふことに就きては、我ら偶像の世になき者なるを知り、また唯一の神の外には神なきを知る。
5 For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many, )
神と稱ふるもの、或は天に或は地にありて、多くの神、おほくの主あるが如くなれど、
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.
我らには父なる唯一の神あるのみ、萬物これより出で、我らも亦これに歸す。また唯一の主イエス・キリストあるのみ、萬物これに由り、我らも亦これに由れり。
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.
されど人みな此の知識あるにあらず、或 人は今もなほ偶像に慣れ、偶像の献物として食する故に、その良心よわくして汚さるるなり。
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.
我らを神の前に立たしむるものは食物にあらず、されば食するも益なく、食せざるも損なし。
9 But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
されど心して汝らの有てる此の自由を弱き者の躓物とすな。
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?
人もし知識ある汝が偶像の宮にて食事するを見んに、その人 弱きときは良心そそのかされて偶像の献物を食せざらんや。
11 and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
さらばキリストの代りて死に給ひし弱き兄弟は、汝の知識によりて亡ぶべし。
12 Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
斯くのごとく汝ら兄弟に對して罪を犯し、その弱き良心を傷めしむるは、キリストに對して罪を犯すなり。
