Bakorintha I 8
1 Gape ke potso ya lona kaga go ja dijo tse di tlhabetsweng medimo ya disetwa. Mo potsong e mongwe le mongwe o ikutlwa gore karabo ya gagwe fela ke yone e e siameng! Mme le fa go ntse jalo go nna “moitse wa tsotlhe” go re dira gore re ipone botoka, mme se se tlhokegang tota, go aga phuthego ke lorato.
Now, with respect to meats offered to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up with pride, but love edifies.
2 Fa mongwe a akanya gore o itse dikarabo tsotlhe, o supa bosenakitso jwa gagwe fela.
If any one thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know it:
3 Mme motho yo o ratang Modimo ka boammaaruri ke yo o bulegetseng kitso ya Modimo.
but if any one loves God, he is taught by him).
4 Jaanong ke eng kaga gone? A re tshwanetse go ja nama e e tlhabetsweng medimo ya disetwa? Ee, re a itse gore modimo wa sesetwa ga se Modimo tota, le gore go na le Modimo o le mongwe fela, mme e seng ope gape.
With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
5 Ka fa bathong ba bangwe, go na le medimo e megolo e le mentsi kwa legodimong le mo lefatsheng.
For though there are those which are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are many gods, and many lords, )
6 Mme rona re itse gore go na le Modimo o le mongwe fela, Rara, yo o dirileng dilo tsotlhe a bo a re dira gore re nne ba gagwe; le Morena a le mongwe fela ebong Jesu Keresete, yo o dirileng sengwe le sengwe a bo a re naya botshelo.
yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
7 Le fa go ntse jalo, Bakeresete ba bangwe ga ba lemoge selo se. Mo matshelong a bone otlhe ba ntse ba akantse medimo ya disetwa gore e a tshela, le go dumela gore dijo tse di diretsweng medimo ya disetwa di neetswe medimo tota. Jalo fa ba a ja dijo tseo di a ba sulafalela ebile di koafatsa digakolodi tsa bone.
But all have not this knowledge; for some, under the persuasion that an idol is a reality, even yet eat meat, as if it were offered to an idol, and their conscience being weak, is defiled.
8 Gakologelwang fela gore Modimo ga o tlhokomele fa re di ja kgotsa re sa di je. Ga re molato fa re sa di je, ebile ga re botoka fa re di ja.
But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.
9 Mme itlhokomele gore o se ka wa dirisa kgololesego ya gago go di ja, e se re kgotsa wa leofisa mokaulengwe mongwe yo o nang le tumelo e e bokoa.
But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.
10 O a bona, se ke se se ka diragalang: Mongwe yo o akanyang go le phoso go ja dijo tse o tlaa go bona o o ja kwa tlung ya dijo ya Tempele, gonne o a itse fa go sena molato mo go tsone. Mme lo tlaa nna pelokgale thata go di ja le ene le fa ka nako tsotlhe a ntse a ikutlwa e le phoso.
For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?
11 Jalo ka gore o “itse gore go siame go di ja,” o tlaa bo o tshwanetse go arabela go dira tshenyego e kgolo ya semowa mo mokaulengweng yo o nang le segakolodi se se boruma, yo Keresete a mo swetseng.
and will not the weak brother, for whom Christ died, perish through your knowledge?
12 Mme ke sebe kgatlhanong le Keresete go leofela mokaulengwe wa gago ka go mo kgothatsa go dira sengwe se a akanyang se le phoso.
But if you sin in this way against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
