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وَأَمَّا مِنْ جِهَةِ مَا ذُبِحَ لِلْأَوْثَانِ: فَنَعْلَمُ أَنَّ لِجَمِيعِنَا عِلْمًا. ٱلْعِلْمُ يَنْفُخُ، وَلَكِنَّ ٱلْمَحَبَّةَ تَبْنِي. | ١ 1 |
But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
فَإِنْ كَانَ أَحَدٌ يَظُنُّ أَنَّهُ يَعْرِفُ شَيْئًا، فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يَعْرِفْ شَيْئًا بَعْدُ كَمَا يَجِبُ أَنْ يَعْرِفَ! | ٢ 2 |
If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].
وَلَكِنْ إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدٌ يُحِبُّ ٱللهَ، فَهَذَا مَعْرُوفٌ عِنْدَهُ. | ٣ 3 |
But if any one love God, he is known of him):
فَمِنْ جِهَةِ أَكْلِ مَا ذُبِحَ لِلْأَوْثَانِ: نَعْلَمُ أَنْ لَيْسَ وَثَنٌ فِي ٱلْعَالَمِ، وَأَنْ لَيْسَ إِلَهٌ آخَرُ إِلَّا وَاحِدًا. | ٤ 4 |
— concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in [the] world, and that there [is] no other God save one.
لِأَنَّهُ وَإِنْ وُجِدَ مَا يُسَمَّى آلِهَةً، سِوَاءٌ كَانَ فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ أَوْ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ، كَمَا يُوجَدُ آلِهَةٌ كَثِيرُونَ وَأَرْبَابٌ كَثِيرُونَ. | ٥ 5 |
For and if indeed there are [those] called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, (as there are gods many, and lords many, )
لَكِنْ لَنَا إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ: ٱلْآبُ ٱلَّذِي مِنْهُ جَمِيعُ ٱلْأَشْيَاءِ، وَنَحْنُ لَهُ. وَرَبٌّ وَاحِدٌ: يَسُوعُ ٱلْمَسِيحُ، ٱلَّذِي بِهِ جَمِيعُ ٱلْأَشْيَاءِ، وَنَحْنُ بِهِ. | ٦ 6 |
yet to us [there is] one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.
وَلَكِنْ لَيْسَ ٱلْعِلْمُ فِي ٱلْجَمِيعِ. بَلْ أُنَاسٌ بِٱلضَّمِيرِ نَحْوَ ٱلْوَثَنِ إِلَى ٱلْآنَ يَأْكُلُونَ كَأَنَّهُ مِمَّا ذُبِحَ لِوَثَنٍ، فَضَمِيرُهُمْ إِذْ هُوَ ضَعِيفٌ يَتَنَجَّسُ. | ٧ 7 |
But knowledge [is] not in all: but some, with conscience of the idol, until now eat as of a thing sacrificed to idols; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
وَلَكِنَّ ٱلطَّعَامَ لَا يُقَدِّمُنَا إِلَى ٱللهِ، لِأَنَّنَا إِنْ أَكَلْنَا لَا نَزِيدُ وَإِنْ لَمْ نَأْكُلْ لَا نَنْقُصُ. | ٨ 8 |
But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.
وَلَكِنِ ٱنْظُرُوا لِئَلَّا يَصِيرَ سُلْطَانُكُمْ هَذَا مَعْثَرَةً لِلضُّعَفَاءِ. | ٩ 9 |
But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.
لِأَنَّهُ إِنْ رَآكَ أَحَدٌ يَا مَنْ لَهُ عِلْمٌ، مُتَّكِئًا فِي هَيْكَلِ وَثَنٍ، أَفَلَا يَتَقَوَّى ضَمِيرُهُ، إِذْ هُوَ ضَعِيفٌ، حَتَّى يَأْكُلَ مَا ذُبِحَ لِلْأَوْثَانِ؟! | ١٠ 10 |
For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?
فَيَهْلِكَ بِسَبَبِ عِلْمِكَ ٱلْأَخُ ٱلضَّعِيفُ ٱلَّذِي مَاتَ ٱلْمَسِيحُ مِنْ أَجْلِهِ. | ١١ 11 |
and the weak [one], the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.
وَهَكَذَا إِذْ تُخْطِئُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِخْوَةِ وَتَجْرَحُونَ ضَمِيرَهُمُ ٱلضَّعِيفَ، تُخْطِئُونَ إِلَى ٱلْمَسِيحِ. | ١٢ 12 |
Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
لِذَلِكَ إِنْ كَانَ طَعَامٌ يُعْثِرُ أَخِي فَلَنْ آكُلَ لَحْمًا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ، لِئَلَّا أُعْثِرَ أَخِي. (aiōn ) | ١٣ 13 |
Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother. (aiōn )