1 Corinthians 8
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Tuh myiqawl a venawh bulnaak awk a ai akawng kqawn lah sih: cyihnaak ni ta boeih uhy tice ni sim uhy. Cyihnaak ve oek qu poepa hy, cehlai lungnaak ingtaw taai sak hy.
2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
Sim hawh nyng ak ti ing a sim hly kawi ce sim tang tang hlan hyn hy.
3 But anyone who loves God is known by him.
Cehlai Khawsa ak lungnaak thlang taw Khawsa ing anih ce sim hy.
4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
Cawhtaw, myiqawl bawknaak awh bulnaak na ami nawn buh a an awh: Khawmdek awh myiqawl bawknaak ve kawna awm am awm nawh Khawsa awm pynoet doeng ni a awm, tice ni sim uhy.
5 For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth—as there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
Ikawtih khawmdek ingkaw khawk khan awh khawsa tinawh amik khy awm hlai hy (“khawsa” khawzah awm nawh “Bawipa” khawzah awm pai hlai hy)
6 yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.
ningnih aham taw Khawsa pynoet doeng ni a awm, anih taw Pa, anih a ven awhkawng ik-oeih boeih ce law nawh anih aham ningnih ve ni hqing uhy, Bawipa awm pynoet doeng ni a awm, anih taw Jesu Khrih ni, anih ak caming ik-oeih boeih law nawh, anih ak caming ningnih awm ni awm uhy.
7 However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
Cehlai u ingawm ve ve am sim hy. Thlang pynoet taw myiqawl bawknaak ce ak kawk khuiawh a awm hyn dawngawh bulnaak buh a an ami ai awh ce, a mik kawpoek tha ama awm dawngawh, amak ciimcaih na awm hawh hy.
8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat are we the worse, nor if we eat are we the better.
Cehlai awk a ai ing Khawsa venna amni khyn hy; ni ai a dawngawh am ni se bet nawh, amni ai dawngawh awm amni leek bet bai hy.
9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
Cehlai na ngaihdingnaak ce tha amak awm khqing bahnaak na ama awm thainaak aham ngaihta lah uh.
10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
Nangmih vawhkaw cyihnaak ak takhqi ing myiqawl bawknaak bawkim awhkaw awk a ai nami ai ce poeknaak thai amak ta thlang ing a ni huh awhtaw, myiqawl bawknaak awhkaw bulnaak buh a an ce ai ngaihnaak kawlung am ta hly nawh nu?
11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
Nang a cyihnaak ing, vawhkaw tha amak awm koeinaa, Khrih ing anih aham thi hlai hy, him hawh hy.
12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Vemyihna koeinaa ak khanawh na thawlh awh cekkhqi a simnaak tha amak awm ce maa sak hawh hyk ti, cedawngawh Khrih ak khanawh thawlh hawh hyk ti.
