1 Corinthians 8
1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;
2 If anyone thinks he knows something, that person does not yet know as he should know.
and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth [him] to know;
3 But if anyone loves God, that person is known by him.
and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.
4 So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol in this world is nothing and that there is no God but one.
Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;
5 For maybe so-called gods do exist, either in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords.”
for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth — as there are gods many and lords many —
6 Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things exist, and through whom we exist.
yet to us [is] one God, the Father, of whom [are] the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] the all things, and we through Him;
7 However, this knowledge is not in everyone. Instead, some previously practiced idol worship, and they eat this food as if it were something sacrificed to an idol. Their conscience is thereby corrupted because it is weak.
but not in all men [is] the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat [it], and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
8 But food will not present us to God. We are not worse if we do not eat, nor better if we do eat it.
But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;
9 But take care that your freedom does not become a reason for someone who is weak in faith to stumble.
but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,
10 For suppose that someone sees you, who have knowledge, eating a meal in an idol's temple. Is not his weak conscience emboldened to eat what is offered to idols?
for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat — shall not his conscience — he being infirm — be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,
11 So because of your understanding about the true nature of idols, the weaker one, the brother for whom Christ died, is destroyed.
and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?
12 Thus, when you sin against your brothers and wound their weak consciences, you sin against Christ.
and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience — in regard to Christ ye sin;
