۱ کَرِنْتھِنَح 8

1 دیوَپْرَسادے سَرْوّیشامْ اَسْماکَں جْنانَماسْتے تَدْوَیَں وِدْمَح۔ تَتھاپِ جْنانَں گَرْوَّں جَنَیَتِ کِنْتُ پْریمَتو نِشْٹھا جایَتے۔

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

2 اَتَح کَشْچَنَ یَدِ مَنْیَتے مَمَ جْنانَماسْتَ اِتِ تَرْہِ تینَ یادرِشَں جْنانَں چیشْٹِتَوْیَں تادرِشَں کِمَپِ جْنانَمَدْیاپِ نَ لَبْدھَں۔

If anyone thinks he knows something, that person does not yet know as he should know.

3 کِنْتُ یَ اِیشْوَرے پْرِییَتے سَ اِیشْوَریناپِ جْنایَتے۔

But if anyone loves God, that person is known by him.

4 دیوَتابَلِپْرَسادَبھَکْشَنے وَیَمِدَں وِدْمو یَتْ جَگَنْمَدھْیے کوپِ دیوو نَ وِدْیَتے، ایکَشْچیشْوَرو دْوِتِییو ناسْتِیتِ۔

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.

5 سْوَرْگے پرِتھِوْیاں وا یَدْیَپِ کیشُچِدْ اِیشْوَرَ اِتِ ناماروپْیَتے تادرِشاشْچَ بَہَوَ اِیشْوَرا بَہَوَشْچَ پْرَبھَوو وِدْیَنْتی

For maybe so-called gods do exist, either in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords.”

6 تَتھاپْیَسْماکَمَدْوِتِییَ اِیشْوَرَح سَ پِتا یَسْماتْ سَرْوّیشاں یَدَرْتھَنْچاسْماکَں سرِشْٹِ رْجاتا، اَسْماکَنْچادْوِتِییَح پْرَبھُح سَ یِیشُح کھْرِیشْٹو یینَ سَرْوَّوَسْتُوناں ییناسْماکَمَپِ سرِشْٹِح کرِتا۔

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.

7 اَدھِکَنْتُ جْنانَں سَرْوّیشاں ناسْتِ یَتَح کیچِدَدْیاپِ دیوَتاں سَمَّنْیَ دیوَپْرَسادَمِوَ تَدْ بھَکْشْیَں بھُنْجَتے تینَ دُرْبَّلَتَیا تیشاں سْوانْتانِ مَلِیمَسانِ بھَوَنْتِ۔

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.

8 کِنْتُ بھَکْشْیَدْرَوْیادْ وَیَمْ اِیشْوَرینَ گْراہْیا بھَوامَسْتَنَّہِ یَتو بھُنْکْتْوا وَیَمُتْکرِشْٹا نَ بھَوامَسْتَدْوَدَبھُنْکْتْواپْیَپَکرِشْٹا نَ بھَوامَح۔

But food will not present us to God. We are not worse if we do not eat, nor better if we do eat it.

9 اَتو یُشْماکَں یا کْشَمَتا سا دُرْبَّلانامْ اُنْماتھَسْوَرُوپا یَنَّ بھَویتْ تَدَرْتھَں ساوَدھانا بھَوَتَ۔

But take care that your freedom does not become a reason for someone who is weak in faith to stumble.

10 یَتو جْنانَوِشِشْٹَسْتْوَں یَدِ دیوالَیے اُپَوِشْٹَح کیناپِ درِشْیَسے تَرْہِ تَسْیَ دُرْبَّلَسْیَ مَنَسِ کِں پْرَسادَبھَکْشَنَ اُتْساہو نَ جَنِشْیَتے؟

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?

11 تَتھا سَتِ یَسْیَ کرِتے کھْرِیشْٹو مَمارَ تَوَ سَ دُرْبَّلو بھْراتا تَوَ جْناناتْ کِں نَ وِنَںکْشْیَتِ؟

So because of your understanding about the true nature of idols, the weaker one, the brother for whom Christ died, is destroyed.

12 اِتْیَنینَ پْرَکارینَ بھْراترِناں وِرُدّھَمْ اَپَرادھْیَدْبھِسْتیشاں دُرْبَّلانِ مَناںسِ وْیاگھاتَیَدْبھِشْچَ یُشْمابھِح کھْرِیشْٹَسْیَ وَیپَرِیتْییناپَرادھْیَتے۔

Thus, when you sin against your brothers and wound their weak consciences, you sin against Christ.

13 اَتو ہیتوح پِشِتاشَنَں یَدِ مَمَ بھْراتُ رْوِگھْنَسْوَرُوپَں بھَویتْ تَرْہْیَہَں یَتْ سْوَبھْراتُ رْوِگھْنَجَنَکو نَ بھَوییَں تَدَرْتھَں یاوَجِّیوَنَں پِشِتَں نَ بھوکْشْیے۔ (aiōn g165)

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause my brother to fall. (aiōn g165)