1 Corinthians 8
1 And as touching things sacrificed vnto idols, wee knowe that wee all haue knowledge: knowledge puffeth vp, but loue edifieth.
Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 Nowe, if any man thinke that hee knoweth any thing, hee knoweth nothing yet as hee ought to knowe.
If any man presumes to know anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him.
But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.
4 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.
Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
5 For though there bee that are called gods, whether in heauen, or in earth (as there be many gods, and many lords)
For also since there are things called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth, as there are many gods and many lords,
6 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.
yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.
7 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.
Nevertheless the knowledge is not in all men, but some, with conscience of the idol until now, eat as sacrificed to idols, and their weak conscience is defiled.
8 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.
But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.
9 But take heede lest by any meanes this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.
But take heed lest somehow this privilege of yours becomes a stumbling-block to those who are weak.
10 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?
For if some man sees thee, who has knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
11 And through thy knowledge shall the weake brother perish, for whome Christ died.
And by thy knowledge the brother, being weak, will be ruined, for whom Christ died.
12 Nowe when ye sinne so against the brethren, and wound their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christ.
And sinning this way against the brothers, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
