1 Corinthians 8

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

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.

2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

Fa mongwe a akanya gore o itse dikarabo tsotlhe, o supa bosenakitso jwa gagwe fela.

3 But anyone who loves God is known by him.

Mme motho yo o ratang Modimo ka boammaaruri ke yo o bulegetseng kitso ya Modimo.

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.

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.

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”—

Ka fa bathong ba bangwe, go na le medimo e megolo e le mentsi kwa legodimong le mo lefatsheng.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

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.

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?

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.

11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

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.

12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Mme ke sebe kgatlhanong le Keresete go leofela mokaulengwe wa gago ka go mo kgothatsa go dira sengwe se a akanyang se le phoso.

13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble. (aiōn g165)

Jalo fa nama e e ntshediwang medimo ya disetwa e tlaa leofisa mokaulengwe wa me, ga nkitla ke e ja mo botshelong jwa me, ka gore ga ke batle go mo leofisa. (aiōn g165)