1 Corinthians 8
1 To speake of thinges dedicate vnto ydols we are sure that we all have knowledge. knowledge maketh a man swell: bnt love edifieth.
Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
2 If eny man thinke that he knoweth eny thinge he knoweth nothynge yet as he ought to knowe.
And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.
3 But yf eny man love god the same is knowen of him.
But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
4 To speake of meate dedicat vnto ydols we are sure that ther is none ydoll in the worlde and that ther is none other god but one.
Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and no one else is God except the One.
5 And though ther be yt are called goddes whether in heven other in erth (as ther be goddes many and lordes many)
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth (since there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’),
6 yet vnto vs is there but one god which is the father of whom are all thinges and we in him: and one lorde Iesus Christ by whom are all thinges and we by him.
yet for us there is one God, the Father, out of whom are all things and we into Him, and one Sovereign Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through Him.
7 But every man hath not knowledge. For some suppose that ther is an ydoll vntyll this houre and eate as of a thinge offered vnto ye ydole and so their consciences beynge yet weake are defyled.
However, this knowledge is not in everyone; but some, with consciousness of the idol, still eat it as offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 Meate maketh vs not acceptable to god. Nether yf we eate are we ye better. Nether yf we eate not are we the worsse.
But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better off, nor if we do not eat are we worse off.
9 But take hede that youre libertie cause not ye weake to faule.
But take care lest somehow this ‘right’ of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.
10 For yf some man se ye which hast knowledge sit at meate in the ydoles teple shall not the conscience of hym which is weake be boldened to eate those thinges which are offered vnto ye ydole?
For if someone who is weak sees you with your knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?
11 And so thorow thy knowledge shall ye weake brother perisshe for whom christ dyed.
And so the weak brother, for whom Christ died, will be wasted because of your knowledge.
12 Whe ye synne so agaynst the brethren and wounde their weake consciences ye synne agaynst Christ.
But when you thus sin against the brothers and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
