1 Corinthians 8
1 Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Zvino maererano nezvakabairwa zvifananidzo, tinoziva kuti tese tine ruzivo. Ruzivo rwunotutumadza, asi rudo rwunovaka.
2 If anyone thinks he knows something, that person does not yet know as he should know.
Uye kana ani nani achifunga kuti anoziva chinhu, haasati aziva chinhu sezvaanofanira kuziva;
3 But if anyone loves God, that person is known by him.
asi kana ani achida Mwari, ndiye anozikanwa naye.
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.
Naizvozvo maererano nekudya zvinhu zvakabairwa zvifananidzo, tinoziva kuti chifananidzo hachisi chinhu panyika, uye kuti hakuna umwe Mwari kunze kweumwe.
5 For maybe so-called gods do exist, either in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords.”
Nokuti kunyange varipo vanonzi vamwari, kana kudenga, kana panyika (sezvavaripo vamwari vazhinji, nemadzishe mazhinji),
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.
asi kwatiri kuna Mwari umwe, Baba, zvinhu zvese zvinouya naye, nesu tiri maari; naIshe umwe, Jesu Kristu, zvinhu zvese zviripo nekuda kwake, nesu tiripo naye.
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.
Asi ruzivo harwuko kwavari vese; nokuti vamwe vane hana yechifananidzo kusvikira ikozvino, vanodya sezvakabairwa chifananidzo; nehana yavo isina simba inoshatiswa.
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.
Zvino kudya hakutiswededzi kuna Mwari; kwete nokuti kana tichidya, tinowanzirwa; uye kwete kuti kana tisingadyi, tinoshaiwa.
9 But take care that your freedom does not become a reason for someone who is weak in faith to stumble.
Zvino chenjerai, zvimwe kodzero yenyu iyi ive chigumbuso kune avo vasina simba.
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?
Nokuti kana umwe achikuona iwe ane ruzivo ugere pakudya mutembere yechifananidzo, hana yeasina simba haingatsungiswi kuti adye izvo zvakabairwa zvifananidzo here?
11 So because of your understanding about the true nature of idols, the weaker one, the brother for whom Christ died, is destroyed.
Uye neruzivo rwako hama isina simba ichaparara here, Kristu yaakafira?
12 Thus, when you sin against your brothers and wound their weak consciences, you sin against Christ.
Zvino kana muchitadzira hama saizvozvo, muchikuvadza hana yavo isina simba, munotadzira Kristu.
