၁ ကရိန္ထိနး 8
1 ဒေဝပြသာဒေ သရွွေၐာမ် အသ္မာကံ ဇ္ဉာနမာသ္တေ တဒွယံ ဝိဒ္မး၊ တထာပိ ဇ္ဉာနံ ဂရွွံ ဇနယတိ ကိန္တု ပြေမတော နိၐ္ဌာ ဇာယတေ၊
With reference to food that has been offered in sacrifice to idols – We are aware that all of us have knowledge! Knowledge breeds conceit, while love builds up character.
2 အတး ကၑ္စန ယဒိ မနျတေ မမ ဇ္ဉာနမာသ္တ ဣတိ တရှိ တေန ယာဒၖၑံ ဇ္ဉာနံ စေၐ္ဋိတဝျံ တာဒၖၑံ ကိမပိ ဇ္ဉာနမဒျာပိ န လဗ္ဓံ၊
If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.
3 ကိန္တု ယ ဤၑွရေ ပြီယတေ သ ဤၑွရေဏာပိ ဇ္ဉာယတေ၊
On the other hand, if a person loves God, they are known by God.
4 ဒေဝတာဗလိပြသာဒဘက္ၐဏေ ဝယမိဒံ ဝိဒ္မေါ ယတ် ဇဂန္မဓျေ ကော'ပိ ဒေဝေါ န ဝိဒျတေ, ဧကၑ္စေၑွရော ဒွိတီယော နာသ္တီတိ၊
With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols – we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
5 သွရ္ဂေ ပၖထိဝျာံ ဝါ ယဒျပိ ကေၐုစိဒ် ဤၑွရ ဣတိ နာမာရောပျတေ တာဒၖၑာၑ္စ ဗဟဝ ဤၑွရာ ဗဟဝၑ္စ ပြဘဝေါ ဝိဒျန္တေ
Even supposing that there are so-called ‘gods’ either in heaven or on earth – and there are many such ‘gods’ and ‘lords’ –
6 တထာပျသ္မာကမဒွိတီယ ဤၑွရး သ ပိတာ ယသ္မာတ် သရွွေၐာံ ယဒရ္ထဉ္စာသ္မာကံ သၖၐ္ဋိ ရ္ဇာတာ, အသ္မာကဉ္စာဒွိတီယး ပြဘုး သ ယီၑုး ခြီၐ္ဋော ယေန သရွွဝသ္တူနာံ ယေနာသ္မာကမပိ သၖၐ္ဋိး ကၖတာ၊
Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live).
7 အဓိကန္တု ဇ္ဉာနံ သရွွေၐာံ နာသ္တိ ယတး ကေစိဒဒျာပိ ဒေဝတာံ သမ္မနျ ဒေဝပြသာဒမိဝ တဒ် ဘက္ၐျံ ဘုဉ္ဇတေ တေန ဒုရ္ဗ္ဗလတယာ တေၐာံ သွာန္တာနိ မလီမသာနိ ဘဝန္တိ၊
Still, it is not everyone that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.
8 ကိန္တု ဘက္ၐျဒြဝျာဒ် ဝယမ် ဤၑွရေဏ ဂြာဟျာ ဘဝါမသ္တန္နဟိ ယတော ဘုင်္က္တွာ ဝယမုတ္ကၖၐ္ဋာ န ဘဝါမသ္တဒွဒဘုင်္က္တွာပျပကၖၐ္ဋာ န ဘဝါမး၊
What we eat, however, will not bring us nearer to God. We lose nothing by not eating this food, and we gain nothing by eating it.
9 အတော ယုၐ္မာကံ ယာ က္ၐမတာ သာ ဒုရ္ဗ္ဗလာနာမ် ဥန္မာထသွရူပါ ယန္န ဘဝေတ် တဒရ္ထံ သာဝဓာနာ ဘဝတ၊
But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.
10 ယတော ဇ္ဉာနဝိၑိၐ္ဋသ္တွံ ယဒိ ဒေဝါလယေ ဥပဝိၐ္ဋး ကေနာပိ ဒၖၑျသေ တရှိ တသျ ဒုရ္ဗ္ဗလသျ မနသိ ကိံ ပြသာဒဘက္ၐဏ ဥတ္သာဟော န ဇနိၐျတေ?
For if someone should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol’s temple, will not their conscience, if they are weak, become so hardened that they, too, will eat food offered to idols?
11 တထာ သတိ ယသျ ကၖတေ ခြီၐ္ဋော မမာရ တဝ သ ဒုရ္ဗ္ဗလော ဘြာတာ တဝ ဇ္ဉာနာတ် ကိံ န ဝိနံက္ၐျတိ?
And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak person is ruined – someone for whose sake Christ died!
12 ဣတျနေန ပြကာရေဏ ဘြာတၖဏာံ ဝိရုဒ္ဓမ် အပရာဓျဒ္ဘိသ္တေၐာံ ဒုရ္ဗ္ဗလာနိ မနာံသိ ဝျာဃာတယဒ္ဘိၑ္စ ယုၐ္မာဘိး ခြီၐ္ဋသျ ဝဲပရီတျေနာပရာဓျတေ၊
In this way, by sinning against your fellow followers of the Lord and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.
