1 Corinthians 8
1 And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;
And as touching things sacrificed vnto idols, wee knowe that wee all haue knowledge: knowledge puffeth vp, but loue edifieth.
2 and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth [him] to know;
Nowe, if any man thinke that hee knoweth any thing, hee knoweth nothing yet as hee ought to knowe.
3 and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.
But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him.
4 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;
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.
5 for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth — as there are gods many and lords many —
For though there bee that are called gods, whether in heauen, or in earth (as there be many gods, and many lords)
6 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;
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.
7 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.
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.
8 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;
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.
9 but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,
But take heede lest by any meanes this power of yours be an occasion of falling, to them that are weake.
10 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,
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?
11 and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?
And through thy knowledge shall the weake brother perish, for whome Christ died.
12 and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience — in regard to Christ ye sin;
Nowe when ye sinne so against the brethren, and wound their weake conscience, ye sinne against Christ.
