1 Corinthians 8
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
De iis autem, quæ idolis sacrificantur, scimus quia omnes scientiam habemus. Scientia inflat, charitas vero ædificat.
2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
Si quis autem se existimat scire aliquid, nondum cognovit quemadmodum oporteat eum scire.
3 But anyone who loves God is known by him.
Si quis autem diligit Deum, hic cognitus est ab eo.
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.
De escis autem, quæ idolis immolantur, scimus quia nihil est idolum in mundo, et quod nullus est Deus, nisi unus.
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”—
Nam etsi sunt qui dicantur dii sive in cælo, sive in terra (siquidem sunt dii multi, et domini multi):
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.
nobis tamen unus est Deus, Pater, ex quo omnia, et nos in illum: et unus Dominus Iesus Christus, per quem omnia, et nos per ipsum.
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.
Sed non in omnibus est scientia. Quidam autem cum conscientia usque nunc idoli, quasi idolothytum manducant: et conscientia ipsorum cum sit infirma, polluitur.
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.
Esca autem nos non commendat Deo. Neque enim si manducaverimus, abundabimus: neque si non manducaverimus, deficiemus.
9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
Videte autem ne forte hæc licentia vestra offendiculum fiat infirmis.
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?
Si enim quis viderit eum, qui habet scientiam, in idolio recumbentem: nonne conscientia eius, cum sit infirma, ædificabitur ad manducandum idolothyta?
11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.
Et peribit infirmus in tua scientia frater, propter quem Christus mortuus est?
12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Sic autem peccantes in fratres, et percutientes conscientiam eorum infirmam, in Christum peccatis.
