༡ ཀརིནྠིནཿ 8
1 དེཝཔྲསཱདེ སཪྻྭེཥཱམ྄ ཨསྨཱཀཾ ཛྙཱནམཱསྟེ ཏདྭཡཾ ཝིདྨཿ། ཏཐཱཔི ཛྙཱནཾ གཪྻྭཾ ཛནཡཏི ཀིནྟུ པྲེམཏོ ནིཥྛཱ ཛཱཡཏེ།
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 ཨཏཿ ཀཤྩན ཡདི མནྱཏེ མམ ཛྙཱནམཱསྟ ཨིཏི ཏརྷི ཏེན ཡཱདྲྀཤཾ ཛྙཱནཾ ཙེཥྚིཏཝྱཾ ཏཱདྲྀཤཾ ཀིམཔི ཛྙཱནམདྱཱཔི ན ལབྡྷཾ།
The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
3 ཀིནྟུ ཡ ཨཱིཤྭརེ པྲཱིཡཏེ ས ཨཱིཤྭརེཎཱཔི ཛྙཱཡཏེ།
But the one who loves God is known by God.
4 དེཝཏཱབལིཔྲསཱདབྷཀྵཎེ ཝཡམིདཾ ཝིདྨོ ཡཏ྄ ཛགནྨདྷྱེ ཀོ྅པི དེཝོ ན ཝིདྱཏེ, ཨེཀཤྩེཤྭརོ དྭིཏཱིཡོ ནཱསྟཱིཏི།
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
5 སྭརྒེ པྲྀཐིཝྱཱཾ ཝཱ ཡདྱཔི ཀེཥུཙིད྄ ཨཱིཤྭར ཨིཏི ནཱམཱརོཔྱཏེ ཏཱདྲྀཤཱཤྩ བཧཝ ཨཱིཤྭརཱ བཧཝཤྩ པྲབྷཝོ ཝིདྱནྟེ
For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
6 ཏཐཱཔྱསྨཱཀམདྭིཏཱིཡ ཨཱིཤྭརཿ ས པིཏཱ ཡསྨཱཏ྄ སཪྻྭེཥཱཾ ཡདརྠཉྩཱསྨཱཀཾ སྲྀཥྚི རྫཱཏཱ, ཨསྨཱཀཉྩཱདྭིཏཱིཡཿ པྲབྷུཿ ས ཡཱིཤུཿ ཁྲཱིཥྚོ ཡེན སཪྻྭཝསྟཱུནཱཾ ཡེནཱསྨཱཀམཔི སྲྀཥྚིཿ ཀྲྀཏཱ།
yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
7 ཨདྷིཀནྟུ ཛྙཱནཾ སཪྻྭེཥཱཾ ནཱསྟི ཡཏཿ ཀེཙིདདྱཱཔི དེཝཏཱཾ སམྨནྱ དེཝཔྲསཱདམིཝ ཏད྄ བྷཀྵྱཾ བྷུཉྫཏེ ཏེན དུརྦྦལཏཡཱ ཏེཥཱཾ སྭཱནྟཱནི མལཱིམསཱནི བྷཝནྟི།
But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
8 ཀིནྟུ བྷཀྵྱདྲཝྱཱད྄ ཝཡམ྄ ཨཱིཤྭརེཎ གྲཱཧྱཱ བྷཝཱམསྟནྣཧི ཡཏོ བྷུངྐྟྭཱ ཝཡམུཏྐྲྀཥྚཱ ན བྷཝཱམསྟདྭདབྷུངྐྟྭཱཔྱཔཀྲྀཥྚཱ ན བྷཝཱམཿ།
But food does not bring us closer to God: We are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
9 ཨཏོ ཡུཥྨཱཀཾ ཡཱ ཀྵམཏཱ སཱ དུརྦྦལཱནཱམ྄ ཨུནྨཱཐསྭརཱུཔཱ ཡནྣ བྷཝེཏ྄ ཏདརྠཾ སཱཝདྷཱནཱ བྷཝཏ།
Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
10 ཡཏོ ཛྙཱནཝིཤིཥྚསྟྭཾ ཡདི དེཝཱལཡེ ཨུཔཝིཥྚཿ ཀེནཱཔི དྲྀཤྱསེ ཏརྷི ཏསྱ དུརྦྦལསྱ མནསི ཀིཾ པྲསཱདབྷཀྵཎ ཨུཏྶཱཧོ ན ཛནིཥྱཏེ?
For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
11 ཏཐཱ སཏི ཡསྱ ཀྲྀཏེ ཁྲཱིཥྚོ མམཱར ཏཝ ས དུརྦྦལོ བྷྲཱཏཱ ཏཝ ཛྙཱནཱཏ྄ ཀིཾ ན ཝིནཾཀྵྱཏི?
So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
12 ཨིཏྱནེན པྲཀཱརེཎ བྷྲཱཏྲྀཎཱཾ ཝིརུདྡྷམ྄ ཨཔརཱདྷྱདྦྷིསྟེཥཱཾ དུརྦྦལཱནི མནཱཾསི ཝྱཱགྷཱཏཡདྦྷིཤྩ ཡུཥྨཱབྷིཿ ཁྲཱིཥྚསྱ ཝཻཔརཱིཏྱེནཱཔརཱདྷྱཏེ།
By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
