1 Corinthians 8
1 Now about “food sacrificed to idols.” So “we all have knowledge” about this subject. Knowledge makes us proud, but love strengthens us.
Mu diambu di zimbizi zitambuku kuidi bitumba, tuzebi ti beto bosonzayilu yidi yeto. Nzayilu yinnatanga luniemo vayi luzolo tunga lueti tunga.
2 If anyone thinks they know anything, they don't know as they really should know!
Mutu wowo wulembo yindula ti niandi zebi, buna kasi zaba ko boso bufueti zabulu.
3 But whoever loves God is known by God…
Vayi enati mutu wunzolanga Nzambi, buna niandi zabikini kuidi Nzambi.
4 So regarding eating food sacrificed to idols: we know that there are no such things as idols in the world, and that there is only one real God.
Mu diambu di mambu matedi dia zimbizi zitambuku kuidi bitumba, muaki beto tuzebi mboti ti bitumba bidi bima biphamba va ntotowawu, ayi, kuisi Nzambi yinkaka ko; Nzambi yimosi kaka yidi.
5 Even though there are some things called “gods,” whether in heaven or on earth—in fact there are many “gods” and “lords.”
Bila enati bawombo beti tedolo zinzambi buba mu diyilu, buba va ntoto; buna diodi dilembo monika ti zinzambi zidi ziwombo ayi bapfumu badi bawombo.
6 But for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom everything was made, and he is the goal of our existence; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made, and he is the means of our existence.
Vayi kuidi beto tuzebi ti Nzambi yimosi kaka yidi, Tata, niandi wuvanga bima bioso ayi beto tulembo zingi mu diambu diandi. Ayi Pfumu yimosi kaka yidi, Yesu-Klisto. Bima bioso bivangulu mu niandi ayi beto tuidi mu niandi.
7 But not everyone has this “knowledge.” Some who up to now have been so used to idols as a reality that when they eat food sacrificed to an idol, their conscience (which is weak) tells them they have defiled themselves.
Muaki baboso basi nzayilu ko. Vayi bankaka bu bayuku sambilanga bitumba nate buabu, beti dianga zimbizi ziozi zintambukungu kuidi bitumba. Mayindu ma mintima miawu bu madi malebakana, buna makubamonisanga ti bavodidi masumu.
8 But food doesn't gain us God's approval! If we don't eat this food, we're not bad, and if we do eat this food, we're not good.
Luzaba mboti ti bidia bilendi kutufuanisa va meso ma Nzambi ko. Enati tukadi dia kadi kima buna tulendi kambu kima ko, enati tudidi, kadi kima tulendi baka ko va mbata.
9 Just take care not to use this freedom you have to eat food sacrificed to idols to become offensive to those with a weaker attitude.
Vayi lukeba mu diambu di kiphuanza kioki kidi yeno; kibika ba ditadi dimbuminina minlebukila thutu.
10 If another believer sees you who have such “better knowledge” eating food in an idol temple, won't his weak conscience be convinced to eat food sacrificed to idols?
Bila enati mutu wumueni “ngeyo mutu widi nzayilu” buna vuendi mu nzo Nzambi yi bitumba, keti buna mayindu ma ntima wu nlebukila wowomamantuma mu dia zimbizi zitambuku kuidi bitumba?
11 By your “better knowledge” the weaker believer is destroyed, a believer for whom Christ died.
Mu diambu di nzayilu aku, khomba yoyo yilebakana, yoyi Klisto kafuila va dikulusi, makazimbala.
12 In this way you sin against other believers, wounding their weaker consciences, and you sin against Christ.
Bu lumvolanga bobo masumu kuidi bakhomba ayi bu lulembo luekanga mintima mi minlebukila, luzaba mboti ti kuidi niandi veka Klisto lulembo volanga masumu.
13 So if eating food sacrificed to idols would cause my fellow believer to stumble, I will never eat such meat ever again, so that I don't offend any believer. (aiōn g165)
Diawu enati bidia ndilenda dia bilenda buisa khombꞌama mu masumu, buna ndilendi buela bidianga ko mu diambu ndibika ba diluaku dimbuila khombꞌama mu masumu. (aiōn g165)
